THe Imperial Hotel

Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect who was involved with the Arts & Crafts movement. In 1916, he was hired to design the Imperial Hotel in Japan. It would take six year before it was completed and during that time Frank Lloyd Wright would spend the majority of it in Japan., which would have an influence on his later work. The Japanese though the hotel would be something American, where as the Americans thought it would be something Japanese; but in fact it was actually Mayan in looks. Unfortunately, the hotel was not structurally sound and it had to be demolished in 1968. According to Peter Blake, "Wright achieved something almost unheard of in hotel design: in this most standardized of all fields of cubicle architecture he succeeded in making almost every guest-room different from every other."

The Imperial Hotel had many decorative elements

done by skilled carvers who work in Oya stone. Wright used to the ornamentation to Emphasize the hotel's geometric look.

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http://www.pbs.org/flw/buildings/imperial/imperial_drawings.html

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Imperial_Hotel.html