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Frank Lloyd Wright: Broadacre City Project

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Frank Lloyd Wright: Broadacre City Project

Contributors:

By (Author) Juliet Kinchin

ISBN:

9781633451537

Publisher:

Museum of Modern Art

Imprint:

Museum of Modern Art

Publication Date:

30th September 2024

UK Publication Date:

30th June 2024

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

720.92

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

48

Dimensions:

Width 180mm, Height 230mm

Weight:

200g

Description

This latest volume in the MoMA One on One series focuses on Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City Project (1934-1935). Frank Lloyd Wright's proposal for Broadacre City (1929-35) put forth a remarkable claim-that 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 clear definition.

Author Bio

Juliet Kinchin is a former Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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