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Broadacre City was an urban or suburban development concept proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright throughout most of his lifetime. He presented the idea in his book The Disappearing City in 1932. A few years later he unveiled a very detailed twelve-by-twelve-foot (3.7 × 3.7 m) scale model representing a hypothetical four-square-mile (10 km 2) community.
Sep 8, 2017 · That, according to Cornelia Brierly, is how Frank Lloyd Wright described his concept for Broadacre City—a new type of city that would flow across the landscape changing with the terrain and needs of the individual citizen.
Oct 1, 2018 · Learn about Wright's radical project of Broadacre City, a decentralized utopia of small farms and homesteads, exhibited in 1935. Explore the social, economic, and environmental issues that inspired and informed his vision.
Broadacre City was a vision of a low-density, decentralized, and car-friendly city by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It aimed to provide freedom, affordability, and democracy for every citizen, but it never materialized as a real project.
Jan 4, 2017 · Learn about the architect's vision of a low-density, decentralized, and individualized city that fused Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian ideals. Explore how Wright's Broadacre concepts influenced the American landscape and how they might be relevant today.
Jan 1, 2020 · Decentralization Integration: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City. In the aftermath of personal scandals and the 1929 market crash, legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright saw a sharp decline in paying clients. With a creative lull, he took the opportunity to begin something new: Broadacre City, a plan he hoped would change the ...
Feb 3, 2014 · Learn how MoMA and Columbia University's Avery Library restored and preserved the 12-foot-by-12-foot model of Broadacre City, Wright's utopian vision of open space and landscape. See the model in the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal.
