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Friedrich St. Florian Elements of the Vertical City, project, Rome, Italy, Axonometric of base 1966

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Friedrich St. Florian's Vertical City, a tower of three hundred stories, was a visionary urban proposal that he believed could actually be built. The cylindrical form of the structural components was intended to allow the city to soar above the clouds, thus granting at least a hundred additional days of sunlight to those at the top. The regions beyond the clouds were designated for those most in need of light—hospitals, schools, and the elderly—which could be continually provided by solar technology. Like the modern linear city, the vertical version had centralized stations for transportation, communication, and energy.

Publication excerpt from an essay by Bevin Cline and Tina di Carlo, in Terence Riley, ed., The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002, p. 68.
Medium
Ink, graphite, and gouache on board
Dimensions
36 x 28" (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Credit
Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Object number
1291.2000.a
Copyright
© 2024 Friedrich St. Florian
Department
Architecture and Design

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