Design
8 Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright Added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Eight Wright buildings, located around the country, are the first American works of modern architecture that UNESCO deems “of outstanding universal value.”
Buildings designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright are now in the same class as the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China, according to UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
UNESCO voted Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan, to designate eight buildings by Wright a World Heritage Site. The vote marks the first time that the UN agency has recognized examples of U.S. modern architecture. (European modernist Le Corbusier is already represented on the World Heritage list.)