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’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 ...

Photograph of the completed Price Tower Pamphlet for Broadacre City National Life Insurance Building Company, Chicago (1924-25_, colored pencil on tracing paper Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

Specifically, I dig into his ideas of organic architecture, Usonia, and Broadacre City, and look at buildings like Fallingwater in order to come to grips with the balance Frank Lloyd Wright ...