The low-cost housing model coined Usonia was one of the manifestos of the self-professed ‘greatest architect of all time’ Frank Lloyd Wright.
'The skyscraper is a machine that makes land pay,’ according to Cass Gilbert, the architect of the Woolworth Building in 1913 – an early New York City skyscraper. Clare Snowden investigates this theory and how all types of buildings are devices for generating revenue from once idle plots of pasture.