Today, Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp are kicking-off the
Design It: Shelter Competition, a global competition that will challenge users to design a simple shelter in 3D with
Google SketchUp, geo-locate the shelter in
Google Earth, and share it by uploading to the
Google 3D Warehouse. The summer-long competition, which begins on Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday and will conclude on the Guggenheim Museum's 50th anniversary, is inspired by the work of architecture students at the
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and a recent exhibition of that work at the Guggenheim called '
Learning by Doing'. This competition is inspired by Wright's assignment for his apprentices at
Taliesin: If you wanted to study to be an architect with Wright, you had to design and build a shelter in the desert outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Then you had to live and study in it.
