Editing Frank Lloyd Wright (section)

===Recognition===
[[File:FrankLloydWright1966USstamp.jpg|thumb|A 1966 U.S. postage stamp honoring Wright]]
Later in his life (and after his death in 1959), Wright was accorded significant honorary recognition for his lifetime achievements. He received a Gold Medal award from The [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] in 1941. The [[American Institute of Architects]] awarded him the [[AIA Gold Medal]] in 1949. That medal was a symbolic "burying the hatchet" between Wright and the AIA. In a radio interview, he commented, "Well, the AIA I never joined, and they know why. When they gave me the gold medal in Houston, I told them frankly why. Feeling that the architecture profession is all that's the matter with architecture, why should I join them?"<ref name="archive" /> He was awarded the [[Franklin Institute]]'s [[Frank P. Brown Medal]] in 1953. He received honorary degrees from several universities (including his ''alma mater'', the University of Wisconsin), and several nations named him as an honorary board member to their national academies of art and/or architecture. In 2000, Fallingwater was named "The Building of the 20th century" in an unscientific "Top-Ten" poll taken by members attending the AIA annual convention in Philadelphia.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} On that list, Wright was listed along with many of the USA's other greatest architects including [[Eero Saarinen]], [[I.M. Pei]], [[Louis Kahn]], [[Philip Johnson]], and [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]]; he was the only architect who had more than one building on the list. The other three buildings were the Guggenheim Museum, the Frederick C. Robie House, and the Johnson Wax Building.

In 1992, the [[Madison Opera]] in Madison, Wisconsin, commissioned and premiered the opera ''[[Shining Brow]]'', by composer [[Daron Hagen]] and [[libretto|librettist]] [[Paul Muldoon]] based on events early in Wright's life. The work has since received numerous revivals, including a June 2013 revival at Fallingwater, in Bull Run, Pennsylvania, by Opera Theater of Pittsburgh. In 2000, ''[[Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright]]'', a play based on the relationship between the personal and working aspects of Wright's life, debuted at the [[Milwaukee Repertory Theater]].

In 1966, the [[United States Postal Service]] honored Wright with a [[Prominent Americans series]] 2¢ postage stamp.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2c Frank Lloyd Wright single |url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/object/npm_1980.2493.5544 |access-date=May 24, 2022 |website=National Postal Museum |language=en}}</ref>

"[[So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright]]" is a song written by [[Paul Simon]]. [[Art Garfunkel]] has stated that the origin of the song came from his request that Simon write a song about the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Simon himself stated that he knew nothing about Wright, but proceeded to write the song anyway.<ref name=fire>{{cite book|title= Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Bittersweet Story of 1970|author= Browne, D|pages= [https://archive.org/details/firerainbeatless00brow_0/page/45 45–46, 164–165]|publisher= Da Capo Press|year= 2011|isbn= 978-0-306-81850-9|url=https://archive.org/details/firerainbeatless00brow_0/page/45}}</ref>

In 1957, Arizona made plans to construct a new capitol building. Believing that the submitted plans for the new capitol were tombs to the past, Frank Lloyd Wright offered ''Oasis'' as an alternative to the people of Arizona.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oasis – Frank Lloyd Wright's Design for the Capitol|url=http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/landingpage/collection/oasis|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926031805/http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/landingpage/collection/oasis|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 26, 2012|website=Arizona Library|publisher=Arizona Capitol Museum|access-date=November 27, 2014}}</ref> In 2004, one of the spires included in his design was erected in Scottsdale.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/frank-lloyd-wright-spire | title=Frank Lloyd Wright Spire }}</ref>

The city of [[Scottsdale, Arizona]] renamed a portion of [[Bell Road]], a major east–west thoroughfare in the [[Phoenix metropolitan area]], in honor of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Eight of Wright's buildings – [[Fallingwater]], the [[Guggenheim Museum]], the [[Hollyhock House]], the [[Herbert and Katherine Jacobs First House|Jacobs House]], the [[Robie House]], [[Taliesin (studio)|Taliesin]], [[Taliesin West]], and the [[Unity Temple]] – were inscribed on the list of [[World Heritage Site|UNESCO World Heritage Sites]] under the title ''[[The 20th-century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright]]'' in July 2019. UNESCO stated that these buildings were "innovative solutions to the needs for housing, worship, work or leisure" and "had a strong impact on the development of modern architecture in Europe".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2006|title=Two cultural sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List|website=UNESCO|date=July 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/07/07/739359081/unesco-adds-8-frank-lloyd-wright-buildings-to-its-list-of-world-heritage-sites | title = UNESCO Adds 8 Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings To Its List Of World Heritage Sites  |first=  Josh | last = Axelrod | date = July 7, 2019 | access-date = July 7, 2019 | work = [[NPR]] }}</ref>