Frank Lloyd Wright was a formidable figure whose emphasis on the organic shaped the course of 20th-century architecture. His legacy has endured thanks to buildings like Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum, which are revered the world over. But later this year, the school specifically tasked with passing Wright’s wisdom down to new generations of architects will be shutting its doors.

After 88 years, the Wright-founded School of Architecture at Taliesin will cease operations at the conclusion of its spring 2020 semester in June. The school’s governing board made the decision to close down the fully accredited architectural school, citing an inability to reach an agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation that would ensure its continuing operation.

Wright established what would become the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (as the School of Architecture at Taliesin was known until 2017) on his Taliesin estate in Wisconsin in 1932. Initially an apprenticeship program focused on “organic architecture” immersion, some of the program’s attendees went on to assist with some of the architect’s most famous projects over the last 27 years of his life.

Since then, more than 1,200 promising graduate students in architecture from around the globe either learned there from Wright himself or took classes grounded in his teachings. In addition to coursework, the curriculum gave students a chance to design their own residences for the program, and emphasized hosting formal dinner parties as Wright and his wife Olgivanna once did for guests. In addition to the Spring Green, Wisconsin, campus, the program grew to incorporate retreats to Wright’s Taliesin West estate in Scottsdale, Arizona, which today functions as the program’s main campus.

In 2015 curator, professor, and critic Aaron Betsky assumed the role of dean of the school, and was tasked with helping the school complete a $2 million fundraising round, which it undertook as part of an effort to become financially independent from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The two entities officially separated in 2017, and the program changed its name to the School of Architecture at Taliesin.

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Those involved with the school expressed dismay and disappointment that an agreement with the foundation could not be reached. “The closure of the school is very emotional for our students, our faculty and staff, and all of us who worked so hard for this one-of-a-kind institution and its important role in Frank Lloyd Wright’s legacy,” Dan Schweiker, chairperson of the board of governors for the School of Architecture at Taliesin, said in a press release. “We did everything possible to fight for its survival, but due to other forces it was not meant to be.”

The institution hopes to work out an agreement that would allow its approximately 30 current students to transfer their credits to The Design School at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. This would give them an opportunity to finish their degree programs at the Tempe, Arizona, campus, located roughly 20 miles south of Taliesin West.