Broadacre City

Frank Lloyd Wright

and his vision for the urban future

Rogers Lacy Hotel

by Franz Sdoutz

References

1. 'Frank Lloyd Wright: Die lebendige Stadt' edited by David G. De Long, published by Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein / Skira editore, Milan, 1998
   http://books.google.at/
   
   Img. _01 Perspective 134 x 60,6 cm FLWF 4606.001 [page 271]
   
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/
   
   'Rogers Lacy Hotel' [pages 97 to 100] Drawings [5 floorplans, 2 sections …] are labelled » PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR THE ROGERS LACY
   FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOR ROGERS LACY     DALLAS TEXAS «
3. 'Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Seven Unbuilt Designs' by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright, published by Pomegranate, 1999
   http://books.google.at/ [Plate 36a, 36b, 36c, page 78 to 81]
   
   2 [page 81]
4. IN:
   'Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward' published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward' at the Guggenheim Museum NY 2009, by Skira Rizzoli Publications Inc. 2009
   
   Section FLLW FDN # 4606.002 in slightly larger scale [page 273]
5. IN:
   'Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas', Volume 21, Number 1, edited by Michael V. Hazel, published by: Dallas Heritage Village, The Dallas Historical Society, Old Red Museum of Dallas County History & Culture, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Spring 2009 http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/
   
   'Where Dallas Once Stood: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Rogers Lacy Hotel' by Charles T. Marshall [page 22 to 35]
   
   1 a Initially Wright estimated costs to 7 million but revised them to 10 million later. VII.) 4 [According to Charles T. Marshall approximately 110 million Dollars today].
   » He would brag to another client of his first $1 million fee. « [page 24] see also VI.) 5
   
   3 » The southwest corner of Ervay and Commerce is now a parking garage, the dimensions of which approximate Wright's 12-story atrium. « [… page 33]
6. 'Building with Frank Lloyd Wright: An Illustrated Memoir' by Herbert Austin Jacobs with Katherine Jacobs, published by SIU Press, 1986 [first published 1978 by Chronicle Books, San Francisco]
   http://books.google.at/
   
   5 » Vast projects already engrossed his [Wright's] attention. One was the proposed Rogers Lacy Hotel in Dallas, Texas, and Wright boasted to me that it represented "my first million-dollar fee." « [page 87, '14. The Slow Beginning']
7. 'Longview News-Journal: - East Texas wildcatter's rich legacy honored' by Mike Elswick, posted 9th of May 2010, Longview News-Journal
   http://www.news-journal.com/
   
   4 a » "Plans to build it were scrapped as the projected costs V.) 1 skyrocketed, but the rendition has been written up in architecture magazines and gained a lot of exposure," Dial said [Dick Dial, president of R. Lacy in 2010]. The project was finally quelled for good on Dec. 9, 1947, when Lacy died. «

Links

• http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/
  http://www.flickr.com/
  http://books.google.com/
  http://books.google.at/
• Images
  http://einestages.spiegel.de/
  http://www.franklloydwright.com/
  http://texashistory.unt.edu/ 2
• Video
  http://vimeo.com/
• additional Information
  http://www.buffalospreemagazine.com/
  http://ublib.buffalo.edu/
• Compare
  Lille Tower 1991-95 by Christian de Portzamparc
• Rogers Lacy
  http://www.news-journal.com/

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 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.