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John Geiger identified over 6,300 Frank Lloyd Wright project drawings in his database. The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives is the primary source for the bulk of Wright project drawings. The inventory system developed by the Wright Archives plays an important role in understanding notes and other references found throughout the Geiger database. This search presents projects and drawing numbers according to the Wright Archives assignments. Drawings held in other collections may appear integrated into the scheme by Geiger through speculative placement indicated with a question mark.

INFORMATION FOR PROJECT NUMBER 1509

Imperial Hotel, scheme 2 [Tokyo, Japan] (1915)

Note: The following information concerning this project represents original research and analysis by John Geiger, and is based in his long and detailed study of the Frank Lloyd Wright literature as well as personal contacts with members of the Taliesin Fellowship and architectural historians. In addition, he added his own categories of building type and compositional form, as well as other points of consideration that he deemed important to understanding of the design.

Name of client: Hayashi, Aisaku.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Demolished.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Hotel/Motel.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 80.

Drawing Number and Description

1509.??1     Cornice detail study
1509.??2     Structural diagams
1509.003     See 1409.??3
1509.003     Aerial perspective
1509.017     Perspective of left side
1509.018     Elevation
1509.018     Elevation of banquet hall
1509.023     Cornice detail
1509.044     Carpet design
1509.059     Abstract design
1509.096     Bronze floor plate
1509.219     Side entrance studies
1509.225     Elevaion of Banquet Hall
1509.230     Oya stone design
1509.418     Leaded glass window
1509.495     Leaded glass windows
1509.496     Leaded glass window
1509.497     Leaded glass windows
1509.499     Leaded glass window
1509.500     Leaded glass window
1509.554     Window drawing
1509.587     Elevation
1509.589     Elevation oof the front
1509.639     Ground floor plan
1509.640     Main floor plan
1509.641     Floor plan first floor
1509.642     Floor plan second floor
1509.646     Cross seection/elevation
1509.647     Elevation of South wing
1509.649     Elevation and section
1509.653     Cross sections
1509.654     Elevation and cross section
1509.655     Cross sections
1509.739     Leaded glass windows

Individuals recorded as contributing to project:

Note: Not everyone who contributed to a project may be named; only those whose participation has been confirmed from a source appear above. Occasionally names presented as contributors to a project may seem chronologically anomalous. This usually occurs when an individual prepared drawings for publicity, exhibition, or publication long after the original date of a commission.

Endo, Arato
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Specifications writer: Mueller, Paul F. P.
Structural engineering: Floto, Julius

Project Drawing Date Range

Note: Dates for preliminary and working drawings, as well as the start and completion of construction, appear here only when present in the database. Through careful study of original, reproduced, or published Wright drawings, John Geiger developed an elaborate granulation for design process dates and their attributions. Such information is largely available only for Wright projects dating from the mid-1930s until 1959. Sources were often footnoted by an alphanumeric system, but the references are sometimes missing from the locations where they were intended to be recorded; the relationship between footnote letter or numeral and reference is absent. In order to retain the presence of available information, citations are here shown grouped together in one comment field. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field. The relevance of references provided by John Geiger can often be recovered through examination of the publications used in his research.See the list of principal bibliographical sources used for this purpose.

Date recorded by John Geiger for chronological sorting: September 1, 1915.

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution Smith, Kathryn. Frank Lloyd Wright Hollyhock House and Olive Hill: Buildings And Projects for Aline Barnsdall (Los Angeles, California: Hennessey and Ingalls, 2006), p. 20.

Note: The information shown above is collected from a series of data table columns intended originally to record not only comments or notes, but also to cite sources of attribution for dates assigned to the various stages of drawing preparation in the design process. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution shown here should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided.

This commission is referenced and/or illustrated in the following publications:

Alofsin, Anthony. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 A Study of Influence. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago. [ISBN: 0-226-01366-0].
Cleary, Richard (editor). Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. New York: Skira/ Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-0-8478-3262-0].
Drexler, Arthur. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0-8180-0019-8].
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2005, Vol. 16, No. 3. Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2009, Vol. 20, No. 2. Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture. New York: Horizon Press.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1715-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc.. [ISBN: 0-8108-1773-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1914-1923 (Volume 4). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-515-X].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-520-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-523-0].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-8478-3174-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-3-8365-0926-8].
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].
Sloan, Julie L.. Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-2306-7].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 2, 1930-1932. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1548-X].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Organic Architecture, The Architecture of: The Sir George Watson Lectures of the Sul. London: Lund Humphries and Co..