Everywhere or Nowhere: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City

In April 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright mounted an exhibit on a project he called Broadacre City, which proposed radical changes to cities and how we live in them. A veritable Trojan horse that challenged the very urbanity of the space in which it was installed, Broadacre City called for widespread decentralization whereby communities would be based on small-scale farming and manufacturing, local government, and property ownership. Jennifer Gray, director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s Taliesin Institute will unpack the ways that Broadacre, though never built, was a vehicle to address pressing social, economic, and environmental issues, many of which have contemporary relevance.

The Joanne and Alan Kohn Lecture presented by The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park.