“Broadacre City: a New Community Plan”

Title: Broadacre city: anew community plan

Author: Frank Lloyd

Introduction about the author

Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1000 structures and completed 532 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935), which has been called “the best all-time work of American architecture”.Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States

Date of writing: 29-1935

Period: (1932-1958)

Style:

Broadacre’s vast suburban landscape, seemingly scattered across an entire continent, anticipates the prevailing urban context

History:

Through Frank Lloyd’s lifetime. He presented the idea in his book The Disappearing City in 1932.

In “THE LIVING CITY“ Many of the building models in the concept were completely new designs by Wright, while others were refinements of old ones, some of which had been rarely seen.

Urban planner: The greatest architect of the nineteenth century “Frank Lloyd”

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