Frank Lloyd Wright was arrogant, stubborn, and brilliant. But above all, he was a shrewd businessman who understood the importance of spectacle in keeping his business afloat. Wright put on many shows ...
In the 1930s, legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright unveiled Broadacre City, a radical vision of an America built around ...
In 1928, Frank Lloyd Wright had an idea that was to become an obsession. He was sixty-one-years old. After a very public and tumultuous divorce with his second wife, he finally married Olga Ivanovna, ...
Frank Lloyd Wright proposed the revolutionary suburban utopia Broadacre City in the 1930s. He could not have expected it to inspire artists designing the campus of an online shopping website in China ...
Frank Lloyd Wright believed dense urban cities would never make it into the next century. He wrote that "the citizen of the near future preferring horizontality — the gift of his motorcar, and ...
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, & Modern ...
The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright by Neil Levine (Princeton University Press, 464 pp., $65) Neil Levine knows that Frank Lloyd Wright was far from an urbanist. He acknowledges early on that the title ...
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 transport) ...
One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most ambitious plans, proportional to if exactly the conceptual opposite of his mile-high skyscraper, was Broadacre City, the suburban ideal of his Usonian vision: an ...
Ready for some amazing utopia fails? io9 has rounded up 10 utopian cities and communities that never got a chance, for better or worse. Nonetheless, these failures offer interesting historical ...