Wright put on many shows over the course of his lifetime, but arguably no performance was greater than his utopian plan to create the perfect community: Broadacre City.

Frank Lloyd Wright hated cities. He thought that they were cramped and crowded, stupidly designed, or, more often, built without any sense of design at all. He once wrote, “To look at the plan ...

Wright imagined a flowering of small cities covering the entire United States, all connected by a superhighway. Each city would be embedded in nature and have its own cultural and educational centers.

Wright’s opinions were often as flexible as they were scabrous. After years of criticizing skyscrapers as “a threat, a menace to the welfare of human beings,” he designed several in New York and ...

Wright refined his Broadacre City service station design and construction of the new building began April 27, 1958. The final cost was $20,000, with some reports stating a higher cost of $75,000.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm Gas Station, a remnant of his Broadacre City dream, is getting a rehab. As is a Montreal gas station designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which has been boarded up ...

Detail of Broadacre City, showing a sports arena, hotel, and other structures (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) Frank Lloyd Wright believed dense urban cities would never make it ...

This Friday, September 8, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University’s Manhattanville campus will open a new exhibition, Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem ...

Wright spent decades updating his Broadacre City model, ... Photos: Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City Model Coming To MoMA. By . Jen Carlson. Published Jan 27, 2014. Modified Jan 27, 2014.

In 1932, Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s greatest architect, unveiled a suburban model town he called Broadacre City.Like many utopian plans, it included everything from monorails (for easy ...

Between 2016 and 2023, the foundation almost doubled its yearly royalty income. Last year, Kith and New Balance launched a line of sneakers and apparel inspired by Wright’s Broadacre City, a ...