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Founded in 1932 by Frank Lloyd Wright as the Taliesin Fellowship, The School of Architecture (TSOA) is renowned for its immersive, hands-on Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program centered on organic design and sustainable practice. Operating across Paolo Soleri’s experimental desert communities of Cosanti and Arcosanti, the school maintains a radical "learning by doing" pedagogy directly tied to the arid Arizona landscape. Student life is intensely communal, highlighted by a signature rite of passage where students design, construct, and reside in their own experimental desert shelters.
Wikipedia:The School of Architecture (TSOA) is a private architecture school in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was founded in 1986 under the name of The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture as an accredited school by surviving members of the Taliesin Fellowship. The school offers a Master of Architecture program focusing on the organic architecture design philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright. The school is the smallest accredited graduate architecture program in the United States and emphasizes hands-on learning, architectural immersion, experimentation, and a design-build program that grew out of the Taliesin Fellowships’ tradition of building shelters in the Arizona desert. The school is not ranked by any ranking publications.
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