In Sublime Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright

A black and white photo album, documenting Frank Lloyd Wright's first trip to Japan in 1905 and an autobiographical text, the ode “A Song to Heaven”, which the architect wrote in praise of Japanese architecture and way of life, are the starting point of this trip that reconstructs the journey of the American architect in Japan.

Compass and script for this remake unique, these two objects guide a reflection on the influence that Japan exerted on Wright's work, but also on his decisive legacy in the country that inspired him so much.

In a sensory narrative, which summons the imaginary and reveals clues to a diffuse but fundamental history for Japanese and Western architecture, the exhibition proposes a journey consisting of photographs, drawings, videos and sounds, which document the 2011 Távora Prize-winning research trip “A Song to Heaven ou o Japão Sublime em Frank Lloyd Wright” by the architect Marta Pedro, focusing in particular on photographs by a guest artist, director Marco Martins, in a constant dialogue between Wright's initiatory journey and a personal vision of Contemporary Japan.