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F 151008135422 Lva1 App6891
F 151008135422 Lva1 App6891
ACCORDING TO HIM,
CITIES WOULD NO
LONGER BE
CENTRALIZED; NO
LONGER BEHOLDEN
TO THE
PEDESTRIAN OR
THE CENTRAL
BUSINESS DISTRICT
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
From this milieu emerges the plan for a community laying out their cities according to family
values, spirituality and knowledge.
Everyone owns land for cultivation, at least one Acre (4046,856 m2, 165 by 264 Feet) The model
plan covers four square miles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
There is no
administration - no
bureaucracy - but
the architect, who plans
the city and settles its
affairs.
He arranges who may
own how many acres of
land and where roads
start and lead to, thus
preventing property
speculation as well as
congestion
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
Broadacre is a continuous metropolitan region of low density. Areas designated to serve similar
purposes are allocated functionally (parallel along traffic systems of more than regional
importance like monorail and motorway):
trade, entertainment, industry, agriculture, housing etc..
Arrangements are selective - idealized - but not exclusive.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
Resolving the volume of traffic as well as coming to terms with prosperity shift focus.
Horizontality and mobility are at the centre of attention in master plan simulations of
the time.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
Instead of improving social order to achieve happiness for mankind, we apply technology
to do so. Before, the new society guaranteed to handle progress reasonably - now
advanced technology and science (considered an instrument to control these
advancements) are trusted to solve the contradictions of current states.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
By 1958 Broadacre remains true to its socioeconomic concept, but generates different images.
It sells via monuments, Frank Lloyd Wright's monuments. The 'air-rotor' [helicopter] becomes
a trademark.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
Still, the conclusive statement by Robert Fishman's 1977 analysis of Broadacre City
constitutes the keenest critique possible.
» […] The plan was democratic not because it had been debated in a legislature or
approved in an election but because it was representative of the nation's deepest
feelings […]
THE BALM FOR WHAT AILS AMERICA
THE GAS STATION WOULD BECOME THE MOST IMPORTANT MARKETPLACE OF BROADACRES
VISION OF THE GAS STATION AND THE ALT UNIVERSE PULP SCI- FI
Wright foresaw that his model for the perfect community would
probably never actually be built to his specifications. He believed
that perhaps America was too broken to recover from the
degradation of the city; too blind to the possibilities of what he saw
as a better way of life.
We got the cars; the sprawl; the gas stations. Cities as diverse as
Los Angeles and Houston and Janesville, Wisconsin are in some
ways versions of Wright's Broadacre dream. But in the end, for
better and for worse, America never saw the rise of that architect
king.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S VEHICLES
THE VEHICLES
WERE SLEEK
AND MODERN—
BUT THEY WERE
SHOWN
FLOATING
ACROSS
PASTORAL,
EXURBAN
SCENES OF WIDE
OPEN SPACES
AND VERDANT
FIELDS
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S VISION FOR BROADACRE
In 1935, Wright wrote an article for the Architectural Record describing the
emerging technologies behind his vision for this new utopia. It would be a
feat of modern technology, built upon some of America's greatest strengths: