World trade center de minoru yamasaki biography
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The Architect of the World Trade Center - Minoru Yamasaki
On this solemn day of remembrance twenty years since that fateful day on September 11, , I want to write a bit about the brilliant architect, Seattle-born and raised Minoru Yamasaki, who designed the iconic World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City.
I was absolutely bowled over to learn that the person who designed the World Trade Center, Minoru Yamasaki, was the same architect of three well-known buildings in my hometown of Seattle—buildings that inom have seen for most of my life in one way or another—the IBM Building and Rainier Tower, (kitty corner from each other on Fifth Avenue and University Street,) and the Pacific Science Center at the Seattle Center (originally built as the U.S. Science Pavilion for the historic Seattle World’s Fair.
These buildings are recognized as key works in Yamasaki’s long architectural career.
It was not too many years after the events of 9/11 that inom somehow learned that
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Sandfuture
“This is a personable, erudite memoir that ambles through a series of theoretical and historical musings linked to the author&#;s emotional, intellectual and practical engagement with New York City” ~Art Review
Sandfuture [&#;] tackles architectural history&#;s canon directly. And it does so with the kind of brio and panache that seems absent from architectural writing these days. ~The Architects Newspaper
“It is not like any other book on architecture I have read. And that is a very good thing [] Beal has written a brilliant, often surprisingly personal, book that works as metaphor and, perhaps, as portent.” ~Edwin Heathcote, FT
“Beal is sympathetic, describing the Japanese-American architect&#;s battles with prejudice, pointing out the qualities of the many fine buildings he created across America, and bringing alive the ironies and tragedies of his career. [&#;] His book is an unusual collage of narratives, but it provides rare insight into the ma•
Buildings, like people, have lifespans. They are conceived, they exist, and then they die, with causes of death ranging from demolition to disaster to deliberate attack. No building is forever, and no architect’s career has embodied this truth more than that of Minoru Yamasaki, whose best-known structures — the original World Trade Center and the Pruit-Igoe housing project — were both destroyed on national television. In his book Sandfuture (MIT Press, ), author and artist Justin Beal argues that neither the twin towers nor Pruit-Igoe will — or should — be remembered as masterpieces. But he argues that no other pair of structures, from their auspicious beginnings to their premature demise, “have exerted a greater influence on the course of American architecture.”
Throughout Sandfuture, Beal uses Yamasaki’s life as scaffolding for a hybrid work of architectural history, cultural criticism, and personal memoir. Memories, anecdotes, statistics, critiques, and archival excerpts