Everywhere or Nowhere: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City
In April 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright mounted an exhibit on a project he called Broadacre City, which proposed radical changes to cities and how we live in them. A veritable Trojan horse that challenged the very urbanity of the space in which it was installed, Broadacre City called for widespread decentralization whereby communities would be based on small-scale farming and manufacturing, local government, and property ownership. Jennifer Gray, director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s Taliesin Institute unpacks the ways that Broadacre, though never built, was a vehicle to address pressing social, economic, and environmental issues, many of which have contemporary relevance.
The Joanne and Alan Kohn Lecture presented by The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park.
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digital rendering would be cool to see what life would be like in a city like this
Modern Hobbit Living .... This is a very interesting and different way of living and it seemed like he had it all figured out; sounds like it might work as a different way of living at the least, and maybe a better way of living. I see things that could be tweaked (mass transit - smaller busses) and I wonder if a nation that had towns and cities like this along with the best system of what we have/how we live because it is obvious that most urban areas before WW2 were far better build in design/zoning than they are today.
when and where will the next showing of the model be? thank you