Architect

Recently, I have found some article about this man. His name is Frank Lloyd Wright. He is one of interesting, perhaps the most interesting architects of his own days. There is one sim in Second Life related with him, where I have found many interesting things.

Who is Frank Lloyd Wright? The surname Wright suggests Wright brothers and their flight. Lloyd’s, it is famous insurance company, which mainly insures the ships. Or Andrew Lloyd Weber, its music author of the most famous musical West Side Story. And Frank, it associates me one madman from TV series M*A*S*H, Frank Burnse.

However, F.L. Wright was American architect, interior designer, writer and educator. During his life, he designed more than 1000 projects, which were realized more than 500. Between years 1900 and 1917 he designed so-called “Prairie Houses”, mainly in Chicago surroundings. For example, Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York or Hillside Home School, 1902 in Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin. But Frederick Robie House in Chicago and the Avery and Queene Coonley House in Riverside, Illinois are the masterpieces of this period.

The private residence – Fallingwater – built for Mrs. And Mr. Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh is one of his well-known and the most famous one. I cannot miss out also his other masterpiece, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. He built it for 16 years from year 1943 to 1959.

The sim, on which The Virtual Frank Lloyd Wright Museum stands, bears characteristic name Usonia. After landing on island, you are right confronted with the majestic museum building. In the middle under an arc, there is an information desk and the museum rooms are at the both sides. There you can find the pictures of Wright’s houses. After visiting of the exhibition, I recommend to continue to the fountain and then on patheway round the houses, which are the replicas them form the real world. You can also use the teleport pads that are placed at each house on the ground. But form this walk was interesting; one can relish surrounding beautiful scenery.

What is also important, the owner of the virtual museum has the official license directly from the Frank Lloyd Foundation, which was founded by the architect himself in year 1940. I will not say, what you find there, but the pictures can suggest you.

SLurl: Usonia

(Sources: New World Notes, Wikipedia)