Broadacre City

Frank Lloyd Wright

and his vision for the urban future

Malcolm Willey House

by Franz Sdoutz

'Malcolm Willey House', Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1933 - 1934 (second, realised design), by Frank Lloyd Wright

'Malcolm Willey House', first design - 1932

» In the first scheme for the Malcolm Willey House, Wright has begun to use a new architectural grammar with elements that will eventually define the Usonian house type that he developed in 1936. « III.) 1

References

1. 'The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright' by Arthur Drexler, published by Bramhall House, New York in 1962
   
   Img. 01 Perspective [3401.001] and publication plan [3401.007] of 'Malcolm Willey House', scheme #2, Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1933 - 1934
2. 'The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture' edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, published by Princeton University Press 2008 http://press.princeton.edu/
   
   Img. _02 'Malcolm Willey House' scheme #1, Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1932 [FLLW Fdn# 3204.001, detail, page 296]
3. 'Frank Lloyd Wright 1917-1942: The Complete Works' [Volume 2] by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, edited by Peter Gössel, published by Taschen 2010
   http://www.taschen.com/
   
   1 [page 227]
   2 Page 228 shows both floor plans of scheme #1 almost in scale.
   
   3401.002 plan and elevation of scheme #2 label:
   » HOUSE FOR MR + MRS MALCOLM WILLEY MINNEAPOLIS « [page 234]

Links

• http://www.thewilleyhouse.com/
  http://www.dgunning.org/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/
  http://www.wrightontheweb.net/

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.