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The elegance of the architecture draws the attention for the viewer to observe the building. The Japanese society were in the part of the industrial revolution and the start of the modern architecture. Japanese people would need to integrate with the modern architecture to show the new revolution of ‘machine’. The Japanese designers combine ‘Middle or Working Class’ people and the ‘Machine Image’ to create output of modern architecture.
“Japanese domestic architecture was truly organic architecture.” (Frank Lloyd Wirght, The future of architecture, 1953 p.258)
An example of a Japanese organic architecture is the Seto Inland sea folk history museum (Fig 1), designed by Tadashi Yamamoto. The slanting lines express the individualism and elegance of the architecture. The natural stone and concrete emphasise the existence of the architecture. Association between the architecture and the natural surroundings provides an ...

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homely and secure. He sees the organic architecture will constantly improve and eventually develop into an improved society.

“Modern architecture - let us now say organic architecture-is a natural architecture-the architecture of nature, for nature.” (Frank Lloyd Wright, The future of architecture, 1953 p.245)

“Wright’s concept of designing the building is that it grows from an idea like a plant growing from a seed. (Details of Frank Lloyd Wright: the California work 1909-74, 1994 p.9)

The quotation taken from a book about his California work, shows, Wright liked to experiment designs and find possible architectural solutions. He had many progressive ...

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