3. • Broadacre City was an urban or suburban development
concept proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright throughout most of
his lifetime. He presented the idea in his 3 books The
Disappearing City (1932), When Democracy Builds (1945), and The
Living City (1958), Wright's utopia was ultimately an extension of
the things that made him personally comfortable: open spaces,
the automobile, and not surprisingly, the architect as master
controller.
• According to him, “CITIES WOULD NO LONGER BE CENTRALIZED;
NO LONGER BEHOLDEN TO THE PEDESTRIAN OR THE CENTRAL
BUSINESS DISTRICT”.
• Broadacre City was a thought experiment as much as it was a
serious proposal—one where the automobile would reign
supreme. It was a truly prophetic vision of modern America.
• Where his belief is that it is “a system of personal freedom and
dignity through land ownership guaranteed social harmony and avoid
the class struggle.
• Broadacre City was also called as “USONIAN” or “IDEAL CITY”
• A model of four square miles of a typical countryside developed on
the acre as a unit according to conditions in the temperate zone and
accommodating around 1,400 families.
4. 1. Broadacre City was an urban or suburban
development concept proposed by Frank Wright.
Broadacre's vast suburban landscape, seemingly scattered across
an entire continent, anticipates the prevailing urban context.
* Broadacre City was designed to be a continuous
urban area with a low population density and services
grouped depending on the type. The city had a futuristic
highway and airfields in an effort to help curb traffic. The highways
connecting different cities were gigantic, with detailed design and
landscaping
* In Broadacre City each family is give one acre (4000
m2) of land on which to build a house and grow food. The city was
considered to be (almost) fully self-sufficient. The car was to be the
main mode of transport.
* For wright Broadacre isn’t a city: it is a landscape.
Decentralized in organization, it is self- sufficient in supply,
republican in constitution and populated by auto-mobile citizens.
13. 1. Decentralization and redistribution
2. Symmetry with rhtym, no standardization
3. Free use of the ground
4. Public utilities and government owned by the people of broadacre city
(the ar. Is the agent of the state)
5. Economic independence
1. 1. HOUSES- 4TYPES ; farms, factories, markets & residential
2. 2. GENERAL PARK- a flowered meadow
3. 3.TRAINS for long-distance; aerator
4. 4. SCHOOLS placed in the interior of city; includes art gallery, concert
hall, gardens,zoo pools and green playground.
1. 1. Quality of the bldgs. Are the same
2. 2. Coordination wherein all are employed
3. 3. All public utilities are concentrated in the hands of the county government
4. 4. Materials used at constructions; fireproof materials, glass copper et.
5. 5. Every citizen has his own car.
14. “TO LOOK ATTHE PLAN OF A GREAT CITY ISTO LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE THE CROSS
SECTION OF A FIBROUS TUMOR”
-FRANK LYODWRIGHT
16. ARCOSANTI
Arcosanti is a projected experimental town with a
molten bronze bell casting business inYavapai County,
central Arizona, 70 mi (110 km) north of Phoenix, United States,
at an elevation of 3,732 feet (1,138 m).
Its archology concept was proposed by the Italian-
American architect Paolo Soleri (1919–2013).
He began construction in 1970,to demonstrate how
urban conditions could be improved while minimizing the
destructive impact on the Earth. He taught and influenced
generations of architects and urban designers who studied and
worked with him there to build the proposed "town".
The goal of Arcosanti is to explore the concept
of arcology, which combines architecture and ecology.The
project has the goals of combining the social interaction and
accessibility of an urban environment with sound environmental
principles, such as minimal resource use and access to the
natural environment.
17. PAOLO SOLERI
- (21 June 1919 – 9 April 2013) was an Italian-born
American architect. He established the educational Cosanti
Foundation and Arcosanti.
-Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture
at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in
2006. He coined the concept of 'arcology' – a synthesis of architecture
and ecology as the philosophy of democratic society.
-Soleri authored several books, including The Bridge Between
Matter & Spirit is Matter Becoming Spirit and Arcology – City In the Image
of Man.
AWARDS:
• 1963 – American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for
Craftmanship
• 1981 – Gold Medal at theWorld Bienniale of Architecture held by
the InternationalAcademy of Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1984 – Silver Medal of the Academie d' Architecture in Paris
• 1996 – Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects
• 2000 – Leone d'oro at theVenice Biennale of Architecture for his
lifelong achievement
• 2006 – Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for lifetime
achievement
