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La Citta Nuova
Antonio Sant’Elia
1914
Vision
As a model for the ideal human environment, Antonio Sant’Elia envisions a city that prioritizes function;
Aesthetics and spiritual experiences come as a result. A striking aspect of Sant’Elia’s design is his de-
emphasis on the autonomy of buildings. That is, his design choices for the Citta Nuova implicitly reflect on
the futurist philosophy of beauty in motion, and correspondingly seek to promote the unfettered circulation
of objects – people, automobiles, trains, etc. – through what Banham calls a “knot”-like design in city
planning. Each structure is connected to its neighbors by a “network of multi-level circulation at their feet.”
A Greate Space
Sant’Elia envisioned each appartment as well-ventilated and
well-lit. In the apartment wings, he brings the vertical
circulation outside of the building to create more space for
the apartments. Each level is set back to create
opportunities for balconies and outside spaces.
Even though the city appears closed off, Sant’Elia has
created moments for residents to experience nature: the
outside walkways from elevators to floors, as well as the
large open spaces, looking inward, on the buttom levels.
Roadway
Rai
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Elevator towers
are moved outside
of the building
Vision
The Millennium Tower, conceived by Norman Foster in 1989, was a response to Tokyo’s robust
population boom. At the time, the city had a projected population of over 15 million by 2020. Today,
the population of its greater metropolitan area is approaching 38 million. With severe land shortages
across Tokyo, The Millennium Tower proposed upward expansion two miles offshore, in Tokyo Bay,
with over one million square meters of commercial development and housing for 60,000 people. The
tower would generate its own energy and process its own waste, and, at 170 floors, would be the
tallest building in the world.
In the Language of eVolo
A “metro” system, moving both vertically and horizontally, would
carry cars of 160 people throughout the tower, from offices on
the bottom floors to apartments higher up. The topmost section
of the tower would consist of communications systems and
wind or solar generators. Every thirty floors, “sky centers” would
provide amenities such as hotels, department stores, etc. in
five-floor sections articulated by mezzanines, landscaping and
terraces. Because the region is prone to earthquakes and
hurricane-strength winds, the tower’s structure is conical and
aerodynamic; wind resistances decreases towards the top,
where the tower becomes completely open, while width and
strength are maximized at the tower’s base. For structural
support, helical bands are wrapped around the tower.
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ACCORDING TO HIM,
CITIES WOULD NO
LONGER BE
CENTRALIZED; NO
LONGER BEHOLDEN
TO THE
PEDESTRIAN OR
THE CENTRAL
BUSINESS DISTRICT
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
From this milieu emerges the plan for a community laying out their cities according to family
values, spirituality and knowledge.
Everyone owns land for cultivation, at least one Acre (4046,856 m2, 165 by 264 Feet) The model
plan covers four square miles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
There is no
administration - no
bureaucracy - but
the architect, who plans
the city and settles its
affairs.
He arranges who may
own how many acres of
land and where roads
start and lead to, thus
preventing property
speculation as well as
congestion
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
Broadacre is a continuous metropolitan region of low density. Areas designated to serve similar
purposes are allocated functionally (parallel along traffic systems of more than regional
importance like monorail and motorway):
trade, entertainment, industry, agriculture, housing etc..
Arrangements are selective - idealized - but not exclusive.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
Resolving the volume of traffic as well as coming to terms with prosperity shift focus.
Horizontality and mobility are at the centre of attention in master plan simulations of
the time.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
Instead of improving social order to achieve happiness for mankind, we apply technology
to do so. Before, the new society guaranteed to handle progress reasonably - now
advanced technology and science (considered an instrument to control these
advancements) are trusted to solve the contradictions of current states.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
By 1958 Broadacre remains true to its socioeconomic concept, but generates different images.
It sells via monuments, Frank Lloyd Wright's monuments. The 'air-rotor' [helicopter] becomes
a trademark.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S UTOPIAN DYSTOPIA
Still, the conclusive statement by Robert Fishman's 1977 analysis of Broadacre City
constitutes the keenest critique possible.
» […] The plan was democratic not because it had been debated in a legislature or
approved in an election but because it was representative of the nation's deepest
feelings […]
THE BALM FOR WHAT AILS AMERICA
THE GAS STATION WOULD BECOME THE MOST IMPORTANT MARKETPLACE OF BROADACRES
VISION OF THE GAS STATION AND THE ALT UNIVERSE PULP SCI- FI
Wright foresaw that his model for the perfect community would
probably never actually be built to his specifications. He believed
that perhaps America was too broken to recover from the
degradation of the city; too blind to the possibilities of what he saw
as a better way of life.
We got the cars; the sprawl; the gas stations. Cities as diverse as
Los Angeles and Houston and Janesville, Wisconsin are in some
ways versions of Wright's Broadacre dream. But in the end, for
better and for worse, America never saw the rise of that architect
king.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S VEHICLES
THE VEHICLES
WERE SLEEK
AND MODERN—
BUT THEY WERE
SHOWN
FLOATING
ACROSS
PASTORAL,
EXURBAN
SCENES OF WIDE
OPEN SPACES
AND VERDANT
FIELDS
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S VISION FOR BROADACRE
In 1935, Wright wrote an article for the Architectural Record describing the
emerging technologies behind his vision for this new utopia. It would be a
feat of modern technology, built upon some of America's greatest strengths: