Washington (AFP)
The Guggenheim Museum in New York and seven other buildings of the American Frank Lloyd Wright, symbols of its "organic architecture", were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List Sunday, which hailed their "strong impact on the development of modern architecture in Europe ".
All designed and built during the first half of the 20th century in the United States, these buildings "testify to + the organic architecture, developed by Wright, which is characterized in particular by an open plan, a blurring of boundaries between the outside and the interior and the unprecedented use of materials such as steel and concrete, "said UNESCO in a statement.
With its famous white curves, the Guggenheim Museum in New York was inaugurated in 1959. From Illinois to California via Arizona and Wisconsin, the list is completed by seven other buildings designed to be private dwellings - - like the House on the Waterfall (Mill Run, Pennsylvania) -, "places of worship, work or leisure".
These works "had a strong impact on the development of modern architecture in Europe," said UNESCO.
US diplomacy welcomed UNESCO's inclusion of a 24th US site on the World Heritage List, the first in the sphere of architecture.
"These buildings show Wright's influence on the trajectory of architecture around the world," the State Department said in a statement.
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