Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan Revisited:
Traditional Japanese Culture as a Means to Modern American Architecture

Speaker: Kevin Nute
Friday, November 14th, 18:00 JST

This talk expands on more than three decades of research that began in 1993 with the publication of the American Institute of Architects-Award-winning book Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan. With the goal of better understanding Wrightʻs philosophical priorities and process of design, his interpretations of traditional Japanese forms are re-examined in the context of current notions otherness, appropriation, abstraction, synthesis, translation and myth.

Kevin Nute is a British American architectural theorist based at the University of Hawaiʻi. He is an internationally recognized authority on the transcultural implications of Japanese architecture. He recently published Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan Revisited: Traditional Japanese Culture as a Means to Modern American Architecture (World Scientific Publishing, 2025).

This hybrid lecture will be held on site (Registration required) and via Zoom.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83190708879
Meeting ID: 831 9070 8879

Venue: EFEO Kyoto, 29 Kitashirakawa Bettō-chō, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto 606-8276
You can find the place on Google Maps with the words 'EFEO Kyoto'

Registration required in advance from https://forms.gle/qc7tmTZRVAZ8nnnW7

Poster download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WTh9ZC66sXXgWM3wW3AySgoybUUIjiIH/view?usp=sharing


École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO)
Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS)
Co-hosted by Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University



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