page_title: Ocotillo Desert Camp
hierarchical_section_title: Ocotillo Desert Camp
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph by George Kastner of Frank Lloyd Wright's Arizona camp, Ocotillo, in Chandler, Arizona. Kastner was a draftsman for Wright. Photograph taken 1929. The camp was constructed out of board and batten with canvas roofs.
context_page_description: Ocotillo was a temporary camp in Chandler, Arizona designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in late-January/early-February 1929 by his draftsmen. The camp buildings, made out of wood and canvas, were intended by the architect to provide living and working spaces for himself and his draftsmen while they worked on a project for promoter, hotelier and entrepreneur, Dr. Alexander John Chandler. Chandler allowed Wright to use part of his land on which to construct the camp.
  Wright and the draftsmen stayed at the camp until late spring, and returned back to Wright's home, Taliesin, on May 31. Wright, presuming work would continue into the next year, intended to return to the camp. However, a fire in the camp that summer prevented the cabins ever being used again. The site has not held buildings since the summer of 1929. The camp was first acknowledged as a precursor to Wright's Taliesin West by architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock in his book, In the Nature of Materials, 1887-1941: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York 1942.
context_section_description: Ocotillo (also known as Ocatillo) was a temporary camp in Chandler, Arizona designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in late-January/early-February 1929 by his draftsmen. The camp buildings, made out of wood and canvas, were intended by the architect to provide living and working spaces for himself and his draftsmen while they worked on a project (San Marcos In The Desert) for promoter, hotelier and entrepreneur, Dr. Alexander John Chandler. Chandler allowed Wright to use part of his land on which to construct the camp. 
  Wright and the draftsmen stayed at the camp until late spring, and returned back to Wright's home, Taliesin, on May 31. Wright, presuming work would continue into the next year, intended to return to the camp. However, a fire in the camp that summer (followed by the stock market crash in October) prevented the cabins ever being used again. The site has not held buildings since the summer of 1929. The camp was first acknowledged as a precursor to Wright's Taliesin West by architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock in his book, In the Nature of Materials, 1887-1941: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York 1942. (97)
caption: Ocotillo camp from the southeast. South Mountain in the background. Courtesy of Brian A. Spencer and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona
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