The Stanton Center Announces Fall Lecture
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Love Affair with Japan
By Kathryn Smith October 20, 2024 4 pm

The Stanton Center is proud to announce Kathryn Smith, nationally recognized Frank Lloyd Wright authority, lecturing on “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Love Affair with Japan,” October 20, 2024, 4 pm, at Stanton Center, 5 Custom House Plaza, Monterey, California.

The fully illustrated lecture, sponsored by Monterey Area Architectural Research Archives (MAARA), will be followed by a book signing and reception with the speaker.

Tickets are $15 at the door. Paid parking lot nearby.

Wright had a fascination with Japanese art all his life, viewing it as a tourist, as a collector, and sometimes as a dealer. Wright is best known as the architect of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, which survived one of the biggest earthquakes in Japanese history, virtually undamaged, on its opening day, September I, 1923. Smith will offer insights into how Wright was chosen as architect for the hotel, the beauties of his Japanese art collection, and how Japan changed Wright’s work in the following decades. MAARA director, Kent Seavey, states, “This lecture will provide a new way of seeing how Japan influenced America in the years just after 1918.”