Broadacre City

Frank Lloyd Wright

and his vision for the urban future

Dates & Labels

by Franz Sdoutz

Each and every architectural practice I’ve worked for (regardless how marginal) executes a strict labelling policy. Architectural drawings [including artist's impressions, models etc.] constitute legal documents. Therefore NOTHING "leaves" the office without a tag …

References

1. 'Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses: Designs for Moderate Cost One-Family Homes' by John Sergeant, published by Watson-Guptill Publications / New York, 1984 Paperback Edition (First published 1976 in New York, by Whitney Library of Design) http://books.google.at/
   
   Preface » […] Wright was not adverse to changing the dates on drawings to make them earlier. Russell Hitchcock's research at Taliesin in the summer of 1941 disputed Wright's chronology so that certain drawings have two dates, Wright's and Hitchcock's. Pfeiffer's II.) datings occasionally conflict with evidence of former apprentices who worked on them. « [page 9]
2. ^ 'Frank Lloyd Wright 1943-1959: The Complete Works' [Volume 3] by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, edited by Peter Gössel, published by Taschen 2009
   http://www.taschen.com/
   
   » For the purpose of this publication, the dates of the work are assigned according to the earliest dated and signed drawing where these exist. […] Wright would occasionally go through them, sometimes re-assigning dates for the work […] Why he did this is unknown […] « [page 575]
3. 'The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: a complete catalog' by William Allin Storrer, Frank Lloyd Wright, published by University of Chicago Press, 2002 http://books.google.at/
   
   Introduction » Taliesin accession numbers identify projects as designed, not as finished by Wright and his subordinates. It is not an "opus" number, as some writers try to claim, for it is not only partially chronological but also discontinuous; the first two numbers identify the year the plan was apparently finished by Wright, but the second two numbers arrange the clients of that year in mostly alphabetical order. […] « [page X]
4. 'Frank Lloyd Wright - Sein Leben erzählt in Briefen, Plänen, Dokumenten [Frank Lloyd Wright: The Interactive Portfolio]' by Margo Stipe, published by Verlag Georg D. W. Callwey GmbH & Co. KG, 2009 [published first 2004 by Running Book Publishers] http://www.amazon.com/
   
   Img. _01 Detail [page 24]

Links

• http://www.franklloydwright.org/
  http://architecture.about.com/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/

more Broadacre

• 'Broadacre City' model
  Illustrations 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007 for 'The Living City'
• Related housing schemes:
  Quadruple Block Plan; Cloverleaf Quadruple Housing; American System-Built Houses; Willey House; Usonia; Galesburg Country Homes; Parkwyn Village; Usonia II;
• Featured architecture:
  Huntington Hartford Play Resort; Gordon Strong Automobile Objective; Rogers Lacy Hotel

File Log

• Very very preliminary version ...
• Outlining Broadacre City became necessary in the course of my urban diploma project 16/3 in 1999. Published online the same year in German, this 'preliminary' English translation became available in 2007.
• All links to http://contentdm.unl.edu/ [University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries] have been updated (25.11.2008).
• Links to http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ [Columbia University in the City of New York] added (2.8.2009)
• All dates according to source [!]. Wikipedia and 'The Complete Works' by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer accomplish a certain 'conventionalisation', superseding conflicting 'chronologies' supported by [prior] publications of the time.