Broadacre City
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Broadacre City was an urban or suburban development concept proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright throughout most of his lifetime. He presented the idea in his book The Disappearing City in 1932. A few years
Sketches for the Broadacre City project by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Apotheosis
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Apotheosis, also called divinization or deification, is the glorification of a subject to divine levels and, commonly, the treatment of a human being, any other living thing, or an abstract idea in th
Broadacre City
…Art. Wright went on to refine the concept in later books and in articles until his death in 1959. Broadacre City was the antithesis of a city and the apotheosis of the newly born suburbia, shaped through Wright's particular vision. It was both a planning statement and a socio-political scheme, inspired by Henry…
Apotheosis of Venice (1585) by Paolo Veronese, a ceiling in the Doge's Palace
The Apotheosis of Cornelis de Witt, with the Raid on Chatham in the background
The Apotheosis of Achilles, from the Monteleone Chariot, Etruscan, 6th century BC
Apotheosis of Emperor Antoninus Pius (d. 161) and his wife Faustina the Elder (d. c. 140), base of his column in Rome