Ocotillo Desert Camp was a temporary wood-and-canvas camp Frank Lloyd Wright built in early 1929 on Alexander J. Chandler’s land in what is now Ahwatukee, Phoenix, as a base for designing the San Marcos In The Desert resort. Created for Wright, his family, and his draftsmen, it was conceived not as a mere encampment but as an architectural response to the desert, with lightweight construction, canvas roofs, and angular forms inspired by nearby mountains and the ocotillo plant. The camp was used only until late spring 1929, but it became an important early experiment in Wright’s desert architecture and a precursor to Taliesin West.