Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture Kidder Paul
Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture Kidder Paul Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. One is tempted to call him America's…
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Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture Kidder Paul
Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. One is tempted to call him America's most famous forgotten architect. While his twin towers of New York's World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the icon recognize its architect's name or know much about his portfolio of more than two hundred buildings.
This book undertakes a reinterpretation of Yamasaki's significance that combines architectural history with the study of his intersection with defining moments of American history and culture. He was classed in the top tier of his profession in the 1950s and 60s, as he carried modernism in novel directions, yet today he is best known not for buildings that stand, but for two projects that were destroyed under tragic circumstances: the twin towers and the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. The story of the loss
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