The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 to 1959), a native of Wisconsin, trained under Louis Sullivan and others in Chicago before opening his own practice in 1893. The earliest of the eight buildings is Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, which Wright, a lifelong Unitarian, worked on from 1905 after the congregation's church burned down. It was one of the first major reinforced concrete buildings in the United States. The Robie House of 1910 is a Prairie-style home built around strong horizontal lines.

Taliesin in Wisconsin, begun in 1911, became Wright's home, studio and school of architecture. In 1919 to 1921 he built the Hollyhock House in Los Angeles for the oil heiress Aline Barnsdall. Fallingwater, built in 1936 to 1937 as a summer home for the businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann, stands over a waterfall. The Jacobs House of 1937, built for less than 5,000 dollars, was one of the first Usonian houses, and in the same year Wright began Taliesin West, his winter base in Arizona.

The last is the Guggenheim Museum in New York, designed from the 1940s and completed in 1959. A nomination of Taliesin and Taliesin West was turned down in the late 1980s, and a ten-building nomination was referred back in 2016. A revised list of eight was inscribed on 7 July 2019, the first time modern American architecture was recognised as World Heritage.