3d Printing Is Being Used To Restore A Frank Lloyd Wright Classic

Sarah Zhang, Gizmodo
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 6:08pm

The largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world is at Florida Southern University. Depending on how you count, there are 7 to 12 buildings, the most distinctive of which is Annie Pfeiffer Chapel. Time has taken its toll on the chapel's one-of-a-kind concrete blocks, but it's the 21st century, and we now have a modern solution to fix them: 3D printing.

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