Broadacre City by Frank Lloyd Wright

Broadacre City by Frank Lloyd Wright

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  Frank LloydWright American architect Writespent his early childhood in aValley near SpringGreen,Wisconsin wrote FLW in his autobiography was lovable. The valley made such an impression on Wright’s sensibilities that he created a code that would make modern cities more like the valley. Born on: 8 June 1867 PLANNINGCONCEPTS BY FRANK LLYOLDWRIGHT PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 1
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  2PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 2 TIMEPHASE OF 1930-1940 • POST INDUSTRIALISATION • MOTORVEHICLES BECAME GLOBAL • CITIES GROWN UP • MORE SPACE FOR CARSTHUS ROADSWAS REQUIRED • CITIES NEEDEDA SOLUTION THE EMERGINGARCHITECTS LIKE LE CORBUSIERAND FL WRITE CAME UPWITHTHEIR IDEA OF AN IDEAL CITY. LE CORBUSIER –VERTICAL CITIES F.LWRITE – HORIZONTALCITIES FLW said with advancement in tech, large centralized city would soon become obsolete & people will return to rural roots.
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  In this way,Broadacre City makes a very specific kind of sense. Horizontal “spread” would leave room for parks, for personal space, for residential areas, for open vistas, and for light and air. Designed as a landscape, this city concept is an example of decentralized and agrarian urbanism. For him, the central problem was that cities lacked essential elements like space, air, light, and silence. And For write , implicating rules for “proper spacing” were simply true and universal. 3PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 3 BROADACRECITY (INTRODUCTION) First appeared in his book “The DisappearingCity’” in 1932, this idea city concept is called the MOST PRESCIENT PLANNING MODEL IN AMERICAN HISTORY
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  4 Individuality Decentralization Automobiles Being that Wrightbelieved in every man’s wright to be his own capitalist. He proposed that each U.S family of 2 be allocated an acre where they can have their gardens, farms and can provide for themselves. Wright embraced decentralisation by focusing on architectural forms that made not much sense in urban scale but fit in with his idealized and undevelopled surroundings. Cars were becoming affordable for the middle class and the automobile fascinatedWright and they were the key to close the gap in distance which eventually would lead to people not having to live in centralised cities.. PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 4 FACTORS Some factors Wright wanted to have integrated into his design for the broadacre city were:
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  5PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 5 •a 12-foot by 12-foot model that represented 4-square miles • Elements included: farms, factories, offices, schools, parks and recreational spaces, places of worship, a seat of government, and individual houses Wright emphasized: “…little farms, little homes for industry, little factories, little schools, and a little university.” Reference: https://franklloydwright.org/reading-broadacre/
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  6PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 6 BROADACRECITY •TO BUILT ONE-SELF SUFFICIENT UNIT • THATWOULDCOVER 4SQ MILES. • ACCOMDATE 5000 PEOPLE IN 1400 HOMES • EACH FAMILYWOULD BE GIVEN ONEACREOF LAND LANDSCAPE HOUSING INDUSTRY FARMING INSTITUTION INFRASTRUCTURE Reference: https://franklloydwright.org/reading-broadacre/
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  8 • NO PRIVATEOWNERSHIPOF PUBLIC NEEDS NO LANDLORDANDTENANT • NO “SUBSISTENCE” HOMESTEADS • NOTRAFFIC PROBLEM, NO BACK AND FORTH HAUL • NO RAILROADS , NO STREETCARS • NO GRADE CROSSINGS, NO POLES ,NOWIRES IN SIGHT , NO DITCHESALONGSIDETHE ROAD • NO HEADLIGHTS , NO LIGHT FIXTURES • NO GLARINGCEMENT ROADS ORWALKS ,NOTALL BUILDINGS EXCEPT ISOLATED IN PARKS • NO ROADSIDEADVERTISING ,NO SLUM , NO SCUM • NO PUBLICOWNERSHIPOF PRIVATE NEEDS, NO MAJOR OR MINOR AXIS PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 8 A NEW FREEDOM FOR LIVING IN AMERICA Reference: https://franklloydwright.org/reading-broadacre/
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  9PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 9 LANDFOR HOUSING REFERENCE - http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/broadacre_city/2011_broadacre_model_en.shtml
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  10PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 10 Each family would be given one acre (4,000 sq.m. from the federal land reserves)  Land would be taken into public ownership; then granted to families for as long as they used it productively.  . LIVING UNITS AND SELF SUFFICIENCY 80% REFERNCE - http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/broadacre_city/2011_broadacre_model_en.shtml 100% 64% 43% 21%
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  11PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 11Reference:https://franklloydwright.org/reading-broadacre/
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  12PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 12http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/broa dacre_city/2011_broadacre_model_en.shtml YEAR1935 YEAR 1958 IN BOOK -THE LIVINGCITY LAYOUT OF AN INDIVIDUAL UNIT
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  13 AUTOMOBILE DESIGN BYFLWRITE FOR BROADACRE CITY PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 13
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  ASPECTSOF BROADACRE CITYTHAT BECAME REALITIES  Prevalence ofurban sprawl  Modern suburbia may have many differences with Broadacre, but there are also many similarities.  single-family homes on larger parcels of land with smaller roads connecting to larger roads connecting to freeways.  Wright believed that modern man had the right to own a car and to burn as much gasoline in driving it as he desired. 14PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 14
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  FAILURES AND LESSONSTO LEARNT  Too realto be Utopian and too dreamlike to be of practical importance.  Demands motor transportation for even the most casual or ephemeral meetings Lessons to be learnt Urban sprawl has become a reality  Decentralization, both physically and economically; being more independent 15PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 15
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  CONCLUSIONS  Although theBroadacre city was a utopian concept and never got built but the idea of FLW was to create a city based on decentralization. 16PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 16
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  17 THANKYOU. SUBMITTED BY:- PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL SUBMITTEDBY:- PROF. APURVA TOMAR.