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Expanding the role of architecture as a critical and holistic practice through learning by doing, experimentation, and building with the landscape.

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@tsoarch, in partnership with the Taliesin Institute @wrighttaliesin, is excited to share a special Lecture Series event featuring renowned Dutch photographer, Iwan Baan, who will share his recent works.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Reception at 5:30pm
Lecture at 6pm

Taliesin West Music Pavilion
12621 N Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd
Scottsdale, AZ 85259
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1 AIA CE credit (Pending)

Lecture Series Sponsor: @swaback_
Series Co-Sponsor: @azarchfoundation

RSVP Required: link in bio

Photo credit: @iwanbaan

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Applications are now open for TSOA’s Master of Architecture program! Our 2 and 3+ year M.Arch tracks are NAAB-accredited and STEM-designated.

Apply by January 15, 2026 for a Fall 2026 start.

TSOA is a living experiment in architectural education. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s visionary principles, today the school has evolved into something even more daring: an immersive design education where students build, live, and lead the future of architecture.

🔗 Link in bio.

#tsoarch #masterofarchitecture #architectureschool #architecturestudent #architecture

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In his final Thesis project Capsule Americana, Nick Gulick (M.Arch ‘25) @snitz9 explores the relevance of Japanese Metabolism in the context of the American Southwestern infrastructure, mobile communities, and critiques of urban sprawl.

Drawing from precedents including the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Capsule Americana is an adaptable system that expands a personal vehicle for living and moving in multiple configurations.

#tsoarch #masterofarchitecture #architectureschool #architecture

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Coming out of a most inspiring 3-week summer studio on the important sites of collaborative and creative experimentation in AZ, based out of the stunning Verde Valley School campus in Sedona. Students focused on the high desert sites of John Henry Waddell’s Studio and Sculpture Garden and Arcosanti in a short design project, further informed by visits to Shash Diné Ecoretreat, Capricorn Hill Center for Surrealism, Cattle Track Arts Compound, Taliesin West, the studio of Mary Margaret Sather, and the Fine Arts Museum of Sedona. Led by Dean Stephanie Lin @stephalin with the support of Amy Waddell, and with more collaborative projects to come. ✨

@tsoarch @verdevalleyschool #johnhenrywaddell @arcosanti_arizona @shashdineecoretreat @wrighttaliesin @sedonavistacottage @sedonapottery #cattletrackartscompound

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Congratulations to Mariah Hoffman @micro.modula on her Thesis Design-Build Shelter, Earthseed Constructions, at our campus at Cattle Track Arts Compound! Beyond the build, our student projects become sites of lively gatherings for the school community.

“Throughout the nearly hundred year history of this school many things have changed, but one constant has been the coming together over a meal, or what we now call “Family Dinners”.

Even in the short build timeline of this project it was important for me to design the capacity to host a family meal at the pavilion, and that’s what we did! A couple times. The space is designed to adapt to hosting 25+ people, and the tables can be stored after use.”

Photos: @illogicaltruths

#masterofarchitecture #architecture #architectureschool #architecturestudent #tsoarch

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Join Arizona Architecture Foundation and AIA Arizona on Monday, April 14, at the AIA Arizona Office in Phoenix, for an evening reception with the academic leaders of all three Arizona-based architecture schools. RSVP at the LINK IN BIO.

Meet & Greet with the following leaders of Architecture Schools in Arizona:
•Renee Cheng, FAIA, Dean of the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and Senior Vice Provost of ASU
•Abigail Hoover, Associate Program Head, The Design School at ASU
•Chris Lasch, Assoc. AIA, President of The School of Architecture (TSOA)
•Stephanie Lin, Dean of The School of Architecture (TSOA)
•Paola Sanguinetti, Assoc. AIA, Director, The Design School at ASU
•Ryan Smith, PhD, Assoc. AIA, Director, The School of Architecture at University of Arizona
•Claudio Vekstein, Program Head, The Design School at ASU

@asudesignschool
@tsoarch
@uarizonacapla

#aia #azarchitecturefoundation #architect #architecture #architectureschool #thedesignschool #tsoa #capla

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Join us Friday, March 28, 2025 at 5:30PM for our next Lecture Series event, featuring @jenniferbonner_mall !

📍 @cattletrackarts
6105 N Cattletrack Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85250
🔗 RSVP Link in Bio

Candy, Dollhouses & Blanks Everywhere!
Jennifer Bonner will speak about her work at MALL, a creative design practice with focus on materiality, constructability, and conceptually driven ideas. MALL’s design work often begins with a representational idea around candy, sandwiches, hats, and other non-architectural elements. Illustrated through collections of models and dollhouses, exhibitions, and architectural drawings, the talk will also discuss the translation into construction details and materials. In 2018, her first built project, a single family home in Atlanta Georgia was constructed of 87 uniquely cut cross laminated timber panels in 14 days time. Her talk will include Haus Gables, Kate’s House (currently under construction), a precast tower in Atlanta, ADUs in LA, and X-Houses

Special thank you to @swaback_ and the @azarchfoundation for their sponsorship of the 2024-25 Lecture Series at TSOA.

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From January 21 — February 11, 2025, TSOA hosted students visiting from Taiwan through IET Global Professional Practices.

Students participated in a design studio, Ecology Matters, alongside TSOA’s immersion program. Informed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s concepts of organic architecture and the legacy of Shelters at TSOA, students developed designs for a Desert Ecology Pavilion in McDowell Mountain Regional Park.

Final reviews were hosted by the Taliesin Institute at Taliesin West after a week-long residency, where students presented their drawings, models, and additional representations of their designs to a jury of faculty and professionals.

Thank you to the @wrighttaliesin and @iet.archi who made this an unforgettable experience!

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Join us on October 24th, 2024 at 5:30PM AZ for the inaugural event of our 2024-25 Lecture Series. TSOA presents Douglas Cardinal: The Language Of Organic Architecture - Designing Learning Spaces That Touch The Human Spirit.

For Douglas Cardinal, Organic Architecture is the discipline that creates spaces that come from the heart and touch the soul. Following his Indigenous teachings and Western masters such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Douglas Cardinal’s organic architectural process aims to manifest an ode to Mother Earth’s values, and the nurturing power of engendering creativity. Douglas Cardinal will share his unique Western and Indigenous education that has allowed him to blend the principles of Organic Architecture into his own signature style. He will showcase three projects to illustrate this point: St. Mary’s Project (1968), the National Museum of the American Indian (1998, 2004), and Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre for the University of Saskatchewan (2016).

The lecture will be followed by a conversation moderated by students of TSOA and ASU.

More information and RSVP at:
tsoa.edu/lecture-series
Link in bio

Special thanks to our lecture Series Sponsor @swaback_ , Event Co-host @asudesignschool and Series Co-sponsor @azarchfoundation

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Was out marauding in the desert with @oasissigncompany a few weeks back and had the chance to drop in on @micro.modula during her finals week at @tsoarch ! They showed me around their campus and even got to check out one of her classmate’s WIP thesis and another alum’s build.
Thanks for the hospitality & allowing me to snap a few flicks of the awesome space & of the star of the show Ocotillo!

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[Desert Marauding]
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Mariah has finished the semester, the truck passed smog, Ocotillo learned how to roll over and found her barking voice, and I am out handing out flyers and starting in someways from scratch and in other ways feeling very proud of how far I have come in the sign biz. Very happy to be together although my heart still goes out to G^za and P^Le5tine each day.
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Even when we’re in a new state, @illogicaltruths still manages to come through and take the loveliest shots of all of us every time! This time while visiting @brightalexmart shelter build as his thesis project @tsoarch.

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#Conversation | “The undisciplined discipline: architecture and its other possible practices”, conversation by KoozArch Managing Editor Valerio Franzone @v.franzone with Ross Exo Adams @rossexoadams and Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco @ivonne_santoyo_orozco, Co-Directors of @bardarchitecture at @bardcollege, and Stephanie Lin @stephalin, Dean of @tsoarch, as part of KoozArch’s issue ‘New Rules for School’.

Bard Architecture and The School of Architecture are two experimental architecture programmes in the US, attempting to set new standards and methodologies in the panorama of architecture schools through their innovative pedagogical approaches. In this conversation we discuss the relationships between pedagogy, professional practice, and politics.

Tap the link in bio to read the full conversation!

#unbuiltarchitecture #koozarch

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