| Eastern Influence Wright at first denied any association with the styles of the east but it is speculated that his interest stemmed from an exhibition he attended with Sullivan in 1893. Wright was impressed by a model of a Japanese house which, although not at the time, led him to say, "The Japanese House naturally fascinated me and I would spend hours taking it all to pieces and putting it together again. I saw nothing meaningless in the Japanese house."(1) It was not only the buildings but the arts and crafts of the East that he enjoyed. 1912 saw Wright pen a book on Japanese prints and just as he had learnt from the architecture he found that the prints, "taught me much. The elimination of the insignificant… in art."(2) It also for Wright was a"'process of simplification in art."(3) Most significantly what Wright took from this art and architecture was a concept of nature, the disciplines of the east were "nearer to the earth and a more indigenous product of native conditions of life and work, therefore more nearly modern…..than any European civilisation alive or dead."(4) (1)Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography,London:Faber 1945. Book Three:Work,pp217-9 (2)Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography,London:Faber 1945. Book Three:Work,pp217-9 (3)Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography,London:Faber 1945. Book Three:Work,pp217-9 (4) Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography,London:Faber 1945. Book Three:Work,pp217-9 Back To Top |
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