Frank Lloyd Wright

Broadacre City Project

Juliet Kinchin

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English

Museum of Modern Art
30 September 2024

Furniture design; Architecture

Series: MoMA One on One Series

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.

By: Juliet Kinchin
Imprint: Museum of Modern Art
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 180mm,
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781633451537
ISBN 10: 1633451534
Series: MoMA One on One Series
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 30 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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