Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, has closed temporarily after a visitor died there on October 16, Arizona news channel AZ Family reports. According to the Scottsdale Fire Department, the man, identified as Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paranáin Brazil, had been on a walking tour of the property around 2 p.m. when he was struck by roofing material dislodged by high winds and killed instantly.
The National Weather Service reported winds of twenty-two miles an hour in the area at the time, with gusts of up to thirty-two miles per hour. Mateucci was part of a group touring the grounds at the time of the incident. Officials pronounced him dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported.
“The foundation extends its deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the individual,” Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation CEO Joe Specter said in a statement. Spectesr said that “no further details will be shared out of respect for privacy and to allow officials to complete their work.”
Built in 1937 in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains, Taliesin West was Wright’s winter home and desert laboratory. It is a World Heritage Site, a National Historic Landmark, and the home of the Wright Foundation. The home is currently closed to the public until further notice.