FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

INSPIRING WORKS-

TALIESIN WEST
IMPERIAL HOTEL

SUBMITTED BY -
YASH SAHU
B.Arch13-18
IIT Roorkee
TALIESIN WEST
-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
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.
View of Studio And Dinning Place
Use of Local Material
Here’s
The
Evening….!
Apprentices
For
Taliesin Fellowship
IMPERIAL HOTEL,TOKYO
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
Original Plans Of Imperial Hotel
Entrance to Social Group End Pavilion

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.
North Wing and Jinrikisha Approach Detail of Pergola, showing relation of lava and
brick
Roof of Pergola, Looking into Garden Courts Garden, Pool, North Bridge and Elevator Housings

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.
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.
 UNFORTUNATELY…….!

The Imperial Hotel went down in

1968.

Here is its replacement.

Among “WORLD’S GREAT LOST BUILDINGS

Imperial Hotel At Meiji Mura
The reconstructed main entrance and lobby of Frank Lloyd Wright's
landmark Imperial Hotel, which originally stood in Tokyo
# 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.