Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781633451537 |
| ISBN10: | 1633451534 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 48 pages |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Category:
Frank Lloyd Wright: Broadacre City Project
Series:
MoMA One on One Series;
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date of Publication: 30 June 2024
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This latest volume in the MoMA One on One series focuses on Frank Lloyd Wrights Broadacre City Project (19341935).
Frank Lloyd Wrights proposal for Broadacre City (192935) put forth a remarkable claimthat the metropolis was obsolete. In its place, Broadacre was to be a Usonian synthesis, an unprecedented landscape unsullied by convention or history, consisting simply of architecture and acreage. With its low-density carpet of small plots, predominantly one- and two-story buildings, and seemingly infinite territory, the ruralized landscape of Broadacre would sustain new levels of individuality and freedom, far more democratic than a traditional metropolis could ever support. Yet the 4-square-mile (10.4-squarekilometer) area of the Broadacre City model would give home to only 1,400 families, making the population density not quite urban or rural or suburban, but somehow their hybrid, with a social and spatial structure that eludes cleardefinition.
Frank Lloyd Wrights proposal for Broadacre City (192935) put forth a remarkable claimthat the metropolis was obsolete. In its place, Broadacre was to be a Usonian synthesis, an unprecedented landscape unsullied by convention or history, consisting simply of architecture and acreage. With its low-density carpet of small plots, predominantly one- and two-story buildings, and seemingly infinite territory, the ruralized landscape of Broadacre would sustain new levels of individuality and freedom, far more democratic than a traditional metropolis could ever support. Yet the 4-square-mile (10.4-squarekilometer) area of the Broadacre City model would give home to only 1,400 families, making the population density not quite urban or rural or suburban, but somehow their hybrid, with a social and spatial structure that eludes cleardefinition.