3. -Taliesin West was built in the Arizona foothills
outside of Phoenix, Arizona
-Completed between 1937 – 1959
-Built late in Wright’s life and was his own
residence as well as Studio for Taliesin
Fellowship
-Combined many of the styles and experience
Wright had developed
-Designed in reaction to the international style
-Used contrast of materials as a basis of
expression
-Taliesin West was based on diversity and
complementarity
4.
5. Taliesin West is not only a symbol
of Wright’s versatility and
influential expansion throughout
the United States, but it marks a
moment in his career where
context and vernacular begin to
integrate into Wright’s formulated
Prairie Style. Similar to his other
projects, Wright takes special
interest in locally available
materials and applies them in
similar fashion to his other Prairie
Style projects, employing low level,
horizontal planes that keep the
house and studio low to the ground
to insure effective natural
ventilation and protection and
shade from the intense desert sun.
13. Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan
-Wright’s first international commission
-Constructed in between 1919 – 1923
-It Survived the worst earthquake in decades, strucked Tokyo
On 26 April 1922
-Designed to blend traditional Japanese architecture with
modern style designs ( Mayan Architecture )
-Imperial Hotel Underwent many changes during the decade
long building process
-Built on a drained marsh
:Wright was worried about earthquakes
:Developed avant‐garde engineering techniques to protect
the structure from damage. Likened to a ship riding on the ocean
-Its form look like its Logo “H”
-Rooms were small and economical instead of grand and
spacious Lego Blocks Model
15. In this structure is not to be found a single form distinctly Japanese; nor that of any other country; yet in its own
individual form, its mass, and subsidiaries, its evolution of plan and development of thesis; in its sedulous care for
niceties of administration, and for the human sense of joy it has expressed, in inspiring form as an epic poem,
addressed to the Japanese people, their innermost thought.
Entrance to Social Group End Pavilion
16. North Wing and Jinrikisha Approach Detail of Pergola, showing relation of lava and
brick
17. In a sense it is a huge association of structures; a gathering of the clans, so to speak.; it is a seeming aggregate of
buildings shielding beauteous gardens, sequestered among them. Yet there hovers over all, and as an atmosphere
everywhere, a sense of primal power in singleness of purpose; a convincing quiet that bespeaks a master hand,
guiding and governing.
Upon further analysis…it is disclosed that the structure is not a group, but a single mass; spontaneously subdividing
into subsidiary forms in groups or single, as the main function itself flows into varied phases, each seeking
expression in appropriate correlated forms, each and all bearing evidence of one controlling mind, of one hand
moulding materials like a master craftsman.
Roof of Pergola, Looking into Garden Courts Garden, Pool, North Bridge and Elevator Housings
18. Main Promenade
The Imperial Hotel stands unique as the high water mark thus far attained by any modern architect.
Superbly beautiful it stands – a noble prophecy.
21. Imperial Hotel At Meiji Mura
The reconstructed main entrance and lobby of Frank Lloyd Wright's
landmark Imperial Hotel, which originally stood in Tokyo
22. # Imperial Hotel’s Few photos appeared in the April 1923 issue of The Architectural
Record and accompanied an article by the great Louis H. Sullivan himself.
