Minoru Yamasaki
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Sandfuture
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Author : Justin Beal
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-09-14
Sandfuture written by Justin Beal and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Architecture categories.
An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written. Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki’s most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story.
Minoru Yamasaki
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Author : Dale Allen Gyure
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-28
Minoru Yamasaki written by Dale Allen Gyure and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-28 with Architecture categories.
The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America’s most significant architects Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern materials and functional considerations of postwar American architecture with traditional elements such as arches and colonnades. Yamasaki’s celebrated and iconic projects of the 1950s and ’60s, including the Lambert–St. Louis Airport and the U.S. Science Pavilion in Seattle, garnered popular acclaim. Despite this initial success, Yamasaki’s reputation began to decline in the 1970s with the mixed critical reception of the World Trade Center in New York, one of the most publicized projects in the world at the time, and the spectacular failure of St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Apartments, which came to symbolize the flaws of midcentury urban renewal policy. And as architecture moved in a more critical direction influenced by postmodern theory, Yamasaki seemed increasingly old-fashioned. In the first book to examine Yamasaki’s life and career, Dale Allen Gyure draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, and nearly 200 images, to contextualize his work against the framework of midcentury modernism and explore his initial successes, his personal struggles—including with racism—and the tension his work ultimately found in the divide between popular and critical taste.
Minoru Yamasaki And The Fragility Of Architecture
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Author : Paul Kidder
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-18
Minoru Yamasaki And The Fragility Of Architecture written by Paul Kidder and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-18 with Architecture categories.
Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. 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 200 buildings. One is tempted to call him America’s most famous forgotten architect. 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. 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. The story of the loss and vulnerability of Yamasaki’s legacy illustrates the fragility of all architecture in the face of natural and historical forces, yet in Yamasaki’s view, fragility is also a positive quality in architecture: the source of its refinement, beauty, and humanity. We learn something essential about architecture when we explore this tension of strength and fragility. In the course of interpreting Yamasaki’s architecture through the wide lens of the book we see the mid-century role of Detroit as an industrial power and architectural mecca; we follow a debate over public housing that entailed the creation and eventual destruction of many thousands of units; we examine competing attempts to embody democratic ideals in architecture and to represent those ideals in foreign lands; we ponder the consequences of anti-Japanese prejudice and the masculism of the architectural profession; we see Yamasaki’s style criticized for its arid minimalism yet equally for its delicacy and charm; we observe Yamasaki making a great name for himself in the Arab world but his twin towers ultimately destroyed by Islamic militants. As this curious tale of ironies unfolds, it invites reflection on the core of modern architecture’s search for meaning and on the creative possibilities its legacy continues to offer. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color illustrations of Yamasaki’s buildings, this book will be of interest to students, academics and professionals in a range of disciplines, including architectural history, architectural theory, architectural preservation, and urban design and planning.
Minoru Yamasaki
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Author : Dale Allen Gyure
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01
Minoru Yamasaki written by Dale Allen Gyure and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Architecture categories.
Dale Allen Gyure traces the full career of midcentury American architect Minoru Yamasaki, providing new insight into his unique style and his unfortunate fall from stardom in the later 20th century.
A Life In Architecture
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Author : Minoru Yamasaki
language : en
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Release Date : 1979-01-01
A Life In Architecture written by Minoru Yamasaki and has been published by Weatherhill, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-01-01 with Architectes - États-Unis - Biographies categories.
Shapes Lines And Light My Grandfather S American Journey
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Author : Katie Yamasaki
language : en
Publisher: WW Norton
Release Date : 2022-10-18
Shapes Lines And Light My Grandfather S American Journey written by Katie Yamasaki and has been published by WW Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-18 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Katie Yamasaki’s newest picture book celebrates the life of her grandfather, the acclaimed Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki. Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as “serenity, surprise, and delight.” Here, Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattle’s Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through college working in Alaska’s notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural school, and the transformative structures he imagined and built. A Japanese American man who faced brutal anti-Asian racism in post–World War II America and an outsider to the architectural establishment, he nonetheless left his mark on the world, from the American Midwest to New York City, Asia, and the Middle East. This striking picture book renders one artist’s work through the eyes of another, and tells a story of a man whose vision, hard work, and humanity led him to the pinnacle of his field.
Minoru Yamasaki New York 1967
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
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Minoru Yamasaki A Retrospective
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Author : Minoru Yamasaki
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Minoru Yamasaki A Retrospective written by Minoru Yamasaki and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Architecture categories.
Minoru Yamasaki
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Author : Anthony G. White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Minoru Yamasaki written by Anthony G. White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Architecture categories.
The American Midwest
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Author : Andrew R. L. Cayton
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-08
The American Midwest written by Andrew R. L. Cayton and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-08 with Social Science categories.
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.