Frank Lloyd Wright had big dreams for southwestern Pennsylvania. Unbuilt plans detailed a drastic reimagining of The Point, striking additions to his famed Fallingwater house, modernist apartments and more. So what would Greater Pittsburgh look like if the architect let his imagination run wild? An exhibit coming to Greensburg aims to answer just that. The Westmoreland Museum of American Art partnered with Fallingwater to present “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southwestern Pennsylvania,” an immersive exhibit more than five years in the making. It will run Oct. 15 to Jan. 14 at the museum. The exhibit will present video animations and 3D models of never-built residential, commercial and civic projects Wright designed for southwestern Pennsylvania in the 1940s and ’50s, says Jeremiah William McCarthy, the curator of The Westmoreland. “A lot of the ideas are still relevant,” McCarthy says. “You’ll see in the exhibition that Frank Lloyd Wright, although he wasn’t trying to create a dense, skyscraper-filled urban environment, was trying to create allure to bring people from the suburbs back into the city.” McCarthy says the models and videos breathe life into plans for a civic center large enough to house a quarter of Pittsburgh’s population, a self-service garage for Kaufmann’s Department Store, an apartment building and a chapel and gate lodge for the Fallingwater grounds.

Digital Illustration: Skyline Ink Animators + Illustrators, Designers. This image was prepared with material made available by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; courtesy of Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.