Frank Lloyd Wright may be associated most strongly with Oak Park, Illinois, where his first home and studio were located, and Spring Green, Wisconsin, where Taliesin is located, but on par with these two locales is Scottsdale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. Here is where he created a second Taliesin — Taliesin West — and where he spent the winters in the last two decades of his life. Before extending the Taliesin Fellowship to the desert through permanent buildings, he set up camp in a tent-like structure.This approach of living in modest dwellings on the land survives in the shelters that students of Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture build to this day. One of them, designed and built in 2010 by Dave Frazee (now part of Broken Arrow Workshop ), is an enclosed shelter that is raised above the desert floor to, as he says, "keep the desert life out." As we'll see, the design is all about making the small space comfortable while allowing the occupant to enjoy the experience of living in the desert.A student at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of ArchitectureScottsdale, ArizonaAbout the size of a bedMost shelters that Taliesin students build for themselves in the desert are temporary; this one is permanent and still serves students.