The US has submitted eight buildings by architect Frank Lloyd Wright to UNESCO's World Heritage List, after revising its nomination put forward in 2015.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania are among the architect's designs due to be considered by the World Heritage Committee in July 2019.
They are among a slightly reduced list that was originally submitted to international heritage body UNESCO in 2015, but sent back for revisions after a review the following year.
The revised World Heritage List nomination includes Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania. Photograph courtesy of the Western Pennsylvania ConservancyIn accordance with the committee's request, the Price Tower in Oklahoma and the Marin County Civic Center in California were removed from the original nomination list of 10. The remaining buildings include Wright's homes and studios at Taliesin, Wisconsin, and Taliesin West, Arizona – both now used by The School of Architecture at Taliesin.
The other private houses on the list – some of which now function as museums – include the Frederick C Robie House (Illinois), Hollyhock House (California), and the Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House (Wisconsin).
The list also includes Wright's spiralled Guggenheim Museum in New York. Photograph courtesy of Frank Lloyd Wright TrustUnity Temple in Oak Park rounds-off the collection of eight projects, which were chosen because they "have figured promi...