Abstract
This paper uses the examples of two modern American architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John Yeon, to show how long-established ideas in one cultural context can serve as a source of innovation in another. It shows how these designers translated two-dimensional devices found in Far Eastern art into architectural space to create new meanings. It is suggested that these examples demonstrate how the migration of ideas between different cultures and media can be an important source of creative inspiration, and that, contrary to popular perception, Western modernism was in fact willing to make use of tradition, provided it was sufficiently remote.
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Modernism, Tradition, Other, Translation, Innovation
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