Modernism (pre-war)

Frank L. Wright

1893 - 1910 Golden Age I

1905 First visit to Japan

1914 US Embassy to Japan (project)

1915 Imperial Hotel (Demolished 1967)

1916 Imperial Hotel Annex
Kikutaro Shimoda

1917 Odawara Hotel (demolished before built)
-lost rights to hotsprings

1911 - 1922 Japan

1923 Great Kanto Earthquake

1932 Autobiography
single illustration & copy of telegram

1936 - 1957/8 Golden Age II

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800 Proposals

32 foreign

12 Japan

9 completed (foreign)

6 in Japan

3 Canada

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Earthquake Damage commission

Earthquake damage but no fire damage

1932 Autobiography (10 years later)

"If one building were left standing in the ashes,
it would be the Hotel"

Sergio Duran