Andy Dingley wrote in
:

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:16:22 -0600, "Jay Windley"
wrote:

At the outset I wouldn't have lumped Bauhaus and Imperial Japan
necessarily into compatible categories,

That's an accident of history. Germany had relatively little contact
with Japan up to WW1, in comparison with Britain, France or the USA.
They're not seen as related, compared to someone like FLW who was
hugely influenced, but convergent evolution certainly made them
compatible.

Didn't FLW do the the big hotel in Tokyo from which MacArthur ran post-war
Japan?

Patriarch