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- 'The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright' by Arthur Drexler, published by Bramhall House, New York 1962
Img. _01 FLWF 5825.005 perspective view of 'The Living City' 1958
- 'Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier' by Robert Fishman, published by Basic Books, New York in 1977
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Img. _02 Labelled: » Broadacre City model. Freeway interchange. From Architectural Record, (1935). « [between pages 114 to 115]
- 'Frank Lloyd Wright 1943-1959: The Complete Works' [Volume 3] by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, edited by Peter Gössel, published by Taschen 2009
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Img. _01 5825.005 'The Living City, Illustrations' 1958 [page 532]
- IN: 'Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings' by Frank Lloyd Wright, selected by Edgar Kaufmann Jr. and Ben Raeburn, published by Meridian Books,1960 [Paperback edition]
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1 'On the Price Tower'
['from THE NEW YORK TIMES, 1953']
» The building has a complete standardization for prefabrication; only the concrete core and slabs need be made in the field. Our shop-fabricating industrial system could function at its best here with substantial benefits to humanity. Owing to the unusual conformations the furniture would have to be a part of the building, as the metal (copper) furniture is designed to be. Here again is the poise, balance, lightness, and strength that may characterize the creations of this age.
The first expression of a treelike mast structure was in a project for St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie in 1929. The skyscraper was indeed the product of modern technology, but it was not suitable if it increased congestion, which it inevitably would unless it could stand free in the country. There was one planned as a feature of Broadacre City - so those from the city wouldn't feel lost in that vision of the country, and the Johnson laboratory tower is another such. But it was an idea that had to wait over thirty years for full realization. It is actually being built now by H. C. Price in Bartlesville, Okla. The total weight of the building will be about 6/10 of the conventional structure of the Rockefeller Center type, due to cantilever and continuity. Now the skyscraper will come into its own on the rolling plains of Oklahoma.
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