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Old 12-20-2016, 02:25 PM   #7
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Taliesin West is really cool... I always forget places like that.

If you want to go down to the Titan Missile and/or Pima Air & Space museums, let me know -- I've never been (even though I went to college in Tucson) and it would make a good day trip.

Another idea is Arcosanti. Its about an hour north of Phoenix, and tours take an hour or so. Its an experimental town developed by Paolo Soleri. Sort of a commune / hippie view of a modern city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti

Funny story related to Frank Lloyd Wright: We had an extra credit assignment in high school where if we visited something like 5 historic buildings that we would visit and write a paragraph about. A friend of mine and I did the assignment together one day after school. We started at his house and walked around his neighborhood and had the assignment done in about 10 minutes. His house was FLW-designed and in a neighborhood with a few others, with the Arizona Biltmore Hotel being down the street (which was FLW-influenced -- he wan't the architect, but he consulted on it...).
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