Spotlight: Minoru Yamasaki

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World Trade Center / Minoru Yamasaki Associates + Emery Roth & Sons. Image via Wikimedia. Part of the Carol M Highsmith Archive donated to the Library of Congress and placed in the public domain

Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986) has the uncommon distinction of being most well known for how his buildings were destroyed. His twin towers at the World Trade Center in New York collapsed in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, and his Pruitt-Igoe complex in St. Louis, Missouri, demolished less than 20 years after its completion, came to symbolize the failure of public housing and urban renewal in the United States. But beyond those infamous cases, Yamasaki enjoyed a long and prolific career, and was considered one of the masters of “New Formalism,” infusing modern buildings with classical proportions and sumptuous materials.

Minoru Yamasaki with a model of the World Trade Center. Image © Flickr user okinawa-soba licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Cite: David Douglass-Jaimes. "Spotlight: Minoru Yamasaki" 01 Dec 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/778081/spotlight-minoru-yamasaki> ISSN 0719-8884

World Trade Center / Minoru Yamasaki Associates + Emery Roth & Sons. Image© <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Trade_Centre_Twin_Towers_New_York.jpg'>Wikimedia user Yann Forget</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/'>CC BY-SA 4.0</a>

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