Virtual Structures by Ten Finalists of Design It: Shelter Competition
On View at Guggenheim.org/vote

Beginning September 7, 2009, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google invite the public to vote for its favorite design among the top ten People’s Prize finalists for the Design It: Shelter Competition. The competition—an interactive, online challenge—received submissions from 68 countries, for a total of nearly 600 entries that met the competition requirements. Participants used Google SketchUp to create and submit designs for virtual 3–D shelters for a location of their choice anywhere on Earth. Votes may be cast at guggenheim.org/vote through October 10, 2009.

Design It: Shelter Competition was inspired by Learning By Doing, an exhibition on view this summer at the Guggenheim Museum along with Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, that featured plans, photographs, and models of shelters built by students at Taliesin and Taliesin West, the Frank Lloyd Wright Schools of Architecture in Wisconsin and Arizona, over the past seven decades. The competition provided the opportunity for anyone in the world to create their own virtual shelter with Google Earth and Google’s 3–D modeling software SketchUp, while adhering to similar design parameters as Wright’s Taliesin architecture students.