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Minoru Yamasaki (山崎 實, Yamasaki Minoru, December 1, 1912 – February 6, 1986) [1] [2] was a Japanese-American [3] architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. [4]
Jun 7, 2024 · Minoru Yamasaki (born December 1, 1912, Seattle, Washington, U.S.—died February 6, 1986, Detroit, Michigan) was an American architect whose buildings, notable for their appeal to the senses, departed from the austerity often associated with post-World War II modern architecture.
Dec 1, 2019 · As designer of both New York's World Trade Center and Pruitt-Igoe in St Louis, Minoru Yamasaki is sadly best known for how his buildings were destroyed.
Jul 5, 2024 · The legacy of architect Minoru Yamasaki in a new book by Paul Kidder that explores his iconic designs and the fragility of architecture.
Sep 11, 2001 · Minoru Yamasaki is one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. He is best known for his design of downtown Manhattan’s original World Trade Center in New York City – t he iconic ‘Twin Towers’ that were famously destroyed in terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, which killed nearly 3,000 people and radically altered the ...
Feb 21, 2019 · Minoru Yamasaki embodied the American dream while feeling the sting of endemic racism. He achieved professional success and international fame as a minority architect, whose ‘otherness’ marked him as a permanent outsider to the East Coast-oriented architectural culture of postwar America.
Although other architects (notably Edward Durell Stone and Philip Johnson) also explored the combination of modernist forms and materials with historicist motifs and elements, Yamasaki’s ornamental eclecticism (drawing from a variety of sources, from mosques to Gothic cathedrals) set him apart from his contemporaries.
