Kevin Nute book talk on December 10 at 7:00pm
Please join us via Zoom for an engaging evening with Kevin Nute, author of Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan Revisited: Traditional Japanese Culture as a Means to Modern American Architecture (2024). This new revised edition builds and expands upon Nute’s seminal 1993 book, Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Role of Traditional Japanese Art and Architecture in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Nute will discuss questions of cultural appropriation, the idea of Japan as viewed through a Western lens, and how Wright translated Japanese building forms into his own architectural language.
Kevin Nute is a British American architectural theorist and professor of architecture at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa. He trained at the universities of Cambridge and Nottingham, worked in practice in London, Hong Kong and Singapore, and spent much of his early career in Japan at the University of Tokyo and Muroran Institute of Technology. In addition to his newest publication, Nute has written many books that examine how built environments can be designed to reflect the parameters of existence, the human/nature interface, and the transfer of ideas between cultures.
We look forward to welcoming Kevin Nute back to Chicago in 2025 for an in-person discussion of his research on Japan and Wright.
Registration closes for this virtual event on Sunday, December 8th at 8pm CST. A link to the Zoom program will be sent on Monday, December 9th, to the email address that you used to register for the lecture.