During his career, Frank Lloyd Wright created 1,171 architectural works, 660 of which were unrealized. David Romero – back in 2018, when the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation commissioned him to render some of the famous architect’s most ambitious works – started to create faithful photorealistic 3D renderings of these structures. After that, Romero continued to make accurate digital versions of these non-existent buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s unrealized projects are coming to life in the digital world
Since 2018, David Romero has embarked on the task of making faithful and photorealistic renderings of the great master of architecture’s most ambitious projects.
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- Lucia Brandoli
- 17 February 2023
His most ambitious work has been his rendering of Broadacre City – the famous urban-rural utopia – which took him over eight months. “The virtual model contains more than one hundred buildings, of which all the exterior facades have been modeled, including their doors and windows. There also are one hundred ships, two hundred ‘aerotors,’ 5,800 cars, and more than 250,000 trees in the virtual model,” said Romero.
The Spanish digital artist has also brought to life – at least in the digital world – many other Wright’s demolished or never-built projects, like the Thomas C. Lea House, the Arizona Capitol Building, the Lake Tahoe Summer Colony, the National Life Insurance Building, and the Universal Portland Cement Co. Exhibition Pavilion.