Solar Panels Headed to Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West It
must have been intimidating. Less than six weeks on the job and
Sean Malone, CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, had to
announce that he was installing solar panels at Taliesin West,
making it one of the first structures in the National Register
of Historic Places and on the National Historic Landmarks list
to "go renewable." Malone, modestly, shakes it off. "To be able
to be a visible example of environmental stewardship -- there
aren't many historical landmarks that could do this," he says.
"We can, and it's because of Frank Lloyd Wright's history of
innovation and responsible use of resources." Read all about the
Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum in this
week's art review by New Times' Kathleen Vanesian. Find more
about the push for energy at Taliesin West after the jump... The
project broke ground earlier this week, but planning began in
early 2011, before Malone came on board, when the foundation
hired Phoenix energy aud