2024-12-22T07:51:15-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/120040339/let-s-be-frank-archinect-sessions-episode-15-with-aaron-betsky-taliesin-s-new-dean Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-02-05T14:29:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/xe/xe75h0vv8c5feine.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>It seems as if the tumult and intrigue that ran through Frank Lloyd Wright's life has lived on at Taliesin. After being embroiled in accreditation issues, <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/82141819/taliesin-faces-loss-of-accreditation-suspends-fall-enrollment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">suspending Fall 2013 enrollment</a>, and working through <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/116035941/wright-architecture-school-sets-fund-raising-goal-for-independence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rocky fundraising plans</a>, Taliesin recently appointed <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/119213308/aaron-betsky-to-lead-taliesin-west" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aaron Betsky to lead the school</a> and help it regain solid footing. Betsky was previously the Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and has quite the art/architecture pedigree: he's served as the Director of the 2008 International Architecture Biennale in Venice, SFMOMA's Curator of Architecture and Design, and the Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam.</p><p>Betsky joined Paul, Amelia, Donna and Ken on the podcast to talk about his plans to make Taliesin the best experimental architecture school in the world, and its role in the changing tides of architecture education. It also turns out that Betsky is quite the DJ.</p><p>News this week was also rather Wright-ous, with the <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/119816278/10-frank-lloyd-wright-buildings-nominated-to-unesco-world-heritage-list" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nomination of 10 FLW structures to the UNES...</a></p>