Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt Trinity Chapel is realised in images by David Romero
An unbuilt chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright has been realised in these colour visualisations by architect David Romero, featuring red walkways, a green shingle spire and stained-glass windows.
The images of Trinity Chapel form part of Romero's Hooked on the Past series that visualise the buildings of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including the demolished Larkin Administration Building and ruined Rose Pauson House.
The Spanish architect chose to recreate the exterior and interiors Wright's unbuilt chapel because he wanted to reveal the intricacies of the design ? a common feature of the Wright's religious architecture.
Wright is considered one of the 20th century's most important architects, and his work is credited a precursor to modernism. "Among Wright's designs that never came to be realised this is one of the most delicate, as the American genius always managed the religious works with true mastery," Romero told Dezeen, "so now we can change history and explore what would have happened if Wright's design had been built just as he had imagined it."
Frank Lloyd Wright designed Trinity Chapel in 1958 for the University of Oklahoma in Norman but it wasn't built because of a misunderstanding between the architect and his client Fred Jones.
Jones, a car dealer, wanted the chapel to be an extension of the university. Instead, Wright conceived a free-standing triangular building wrapped by zigzagging pathways.
Romero captured th...
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