Posted by Barry on November 07, 2001 at 13:15:08:Perhaps, just maybe, FLLW had the Wright...err, right idea afterall. His plan & proposal is more futuristic than we might think.
Broadacre City stands as Wright's answer to urbanization. Frank Lloyd Wright's city, he has said, would be "everywhere and nowhere." He developed a master plan for ideal communities located away from large cities, viewed by Wright as unfit for human habitation. In creating Broadacre City, Wright combined social ideas and values with contemporary concerns about technology -- the automobile, communications, electric power, and developing systems in construction, manufacturing, and transportation. His plan employed a democracy and an aesthetic grounded in a reverence for nature around which to center a way of life, as contrasted with the technical imperatives of contemporary engineers and technocrats, or the moral imperatives of the social planners.
|
Search
ArchWeek
Buildings
Architects
Types
Places
Pix
Free 3D Models
Store
Library
|