Science: Usonian Architect

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Exhibit B is a project called "Broadacre City" which Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship worked out in a 12-ft. model when they all went to Arizona three winters ago. Broadacre City is Wright's answer to urbanization. He believes some-thing like it is already happening in the movement of people out of cities through suburbs to the open country. Its fulfillment would complete this process, giving every citizen his modicum acre of land in communities spread out along the transportation routes. Frank Lloyd Wright's city, he has said, would be "everywhere and nowhere."

At Taliesin Architect Wright has cultivated such a community in embryo. Guests there nearly always feel a distinct sense of translation to a better world. One cause of this is undoubtedly the house itself, with its flowing lines and receptiveness to the landscape. Another is undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little doubt that Frank Lloyd Wright is their worthy peer.