"Crossing Boundaries: Spatial Overlap in Far Eastern Art and American Architecture" University of Hawai'i Haigo and Irene Shen Architecture Gallery

Abstract

This exhibition, created in collaboration with Bundit Kanisthakhon and Kaylen Daquioag, uses the work of two modern American architects, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and John B. Yeon (1910-1994), to illustrate how long-established ideas in one cultural context can serve as a source of innovation in another. The exhibit suggests that at least some modern American architects were perfectly willing to make use of the past, provided that it was sufficiently far removed from their own medium and culture.

At a time when the movement of ideas across cultural boundaries is increasingly being called into question, these examples may serve as a reminder that changes of cultural context have often served as a powerful source of human inspiration.

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The Haigo and Irene Shen Architecture Gallery
August 17th - December 21st, 2020
Crossing
Boundaries
This exhibit uses the work of two modern
American architects, Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867-1959) and John B. Yeon (1910-1994),
to illustrate how long-established ideas in
one cultural context can serve as a source
of innovation in another.
Spatial Overlap
in Far Eastern Art and
American Architecture
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