All Fellowship members, both apprentices and faculty, live on campus. Much of the living space opens directly to the desert. Taliesin West is a complex of buildings and garden courts linked together by walks and terraces. Apprentices at Taliesin West live primarily in desert tents for at least their first year of residency. Desert shelters are available for apprentices after their first year and a limited number of rooms are available for senior apprentices.
Women have the option of a room or desert shelter from the beginning of their residency.
Both tents and shelters are constructed facilities which were traditionally the main living accommodations since Frank Lloyd Wright first set camp in 1937. Wisconsin Summer Campus Most of the faculty and apprentices move to Taliesin in Wisconsin, the original site of the Taliesin Fellowship, for the summer months. At Taliesin all apprentices are assigned to rooms in the various building complexes on campus.