Hot on the heels of the appointment of Aaron Betsky as dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, we’re excited to hear more news about America’s best-known architect: Ten of his masterpieces have been nominated to the United Nation’s World Heritage List. If selected, Wright’s works will join the likes of the Sydney Opera House, the Bauhaus School in Germany, and the city of Brasilia as exemplars of modern architecture on the list of just over 1,000 culturally or naturally significant sites, including everything from forests and mountains to buildings and monuments.
Image via Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
Last week, the US Department of Interior announced that these ten “Key Works of Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright,” as they are officially known, will be considered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for official listing come summer 2016. All ten Wright buildings are already designated as U.S. National Historic Landmarks, and will join just a few other buildings — Monticello, Independence Hall, Taos Pueblo — among the United States’ 22 Heritage Sites.
Here are the nominated designs:
1. Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois
Images via Unity Temple Restoration Foundation
2. Frederick C. Robie House in Chicago
Images via Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
3. Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin
Images via Taliesin Preservation, Inc.
4. Hollyhock House in Los Angeles
Image via Hollyhock House
5.Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Images via Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
6.Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House in Madison, Wisconsin
Image via James Dennis
7. Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona
Image via Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Image via Scot Zimmerman
8. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City
Image via Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
9.Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Image viaPrice Tower Arts Center
10. Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California
Images via Marin County Civic Center
