Unpacking a legend: NY spotlights Frank Lloyd Wright

From a skyscraper twice the height of today's tallest building to self-sufficient farms designed to offset the Great Depression, a New York exhibition is spotlighting the hidden projects and dreams of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Unpacking the Archive is the product of painstaking research from thousands of documents that lay dormant in the personal archive of Wright, that most famous and revered of US architects, 150 years after his birth.

Opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Monday and running until Oct 1, it offers a new glimpse into Wright, five years after the institution, together with Columbia University, acquired the legend's archives.