Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (882 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300217099 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dale Allen Gyure is professor of architecture at Lawrence Technological University and a member of the Minoru Yamasaki Advisory Board at Wayne State University.
About the AuthorDale Allen Gyure is professor of architecture at Lawrence Technological University and a member of the Minoru Yamasaki Advisory Board at Wayne State University.
In the first book to examine Yamasaki’s life and career, Dale Allen Gyure draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, and nearly 200 images, to contextualize his work against the framework of midcentury modernism and explore his initial successes, his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.. Yamasaki’s celebrated and iconic projects of the 1950s and ’60s, including the Lambert–St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Apartments, which came to symbolize the flaws of midcentury urban renewal policy. 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. And as architecture moved in a more critical direction influenced by postmodern theory, Yamasaki seemed increasingly old-fashioned. Louis Airport and the U.S. 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