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	Minoru Yamasaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minoru Yamasaki (ミノル・ヤマサキ) (December 1, 1912–February 6, 1986) was a Japanese American architect, born in Seattle, Washington, a second-generation Japanese American.
		Despite a poor background, Minoru Yamasaki earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington; he earned money to pay for his tuition by working at an Alaskan salmon cannery when not attending classes.
		Yamasaki died of cancer in 1986, fifteen years before Al-Qaeda members destroyed the towers on September 11, 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minoru_Yamasaki (502 words)

	Minoru Yamasaki - MSN Encarta
		Yamasaki preferred delicate, refined materials such as wood and polished steel to the more conventional rough concrete and brick.
		Several world tours exposed Yamasaki to a wide range of influences, and his buildings tended to exhibit a variety of ornamental detail.
		Yamasaki’s most famous structures are the twin towers of the World Trade Center, built from 1966 to 1973.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553670/Yamasaki_Minoru.html (223 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Yamasaki, Minoru (1912-1986), Seattle-born architect of New York's World Trade Center
		Minoru Yamasaki was born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle in 1912 and studied architecture at the University of Washington in 1932.
		Yamasaki died of cancer in 1986, and was thus spared seeing his greatest work destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
		Minoru Yamasaki was born on December 1, 1912, in Seattle.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5352 (1433 words)

	Lower Manhattan: WTC - Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minoru Yamasaki was a second-generation Japanese architect, born December 1, 1912, in Seattle.
		Yamasaki's firm was responsible for the primary design concept of the tower, and worked with Emory Roth and Sons to complete the design.
		While Minoru Yamasaki and Associates was responsible for most of the design concepts of the building, Emory Roth and Sons was responsible for reviewing these designs for appearance, cost, practicability, and compliance with the building code.
	www.unc.edu /courses/2001fall/plan/006e/001/project/chap1.html (8481 words)

	The Next American City
		If Yamasaki sometimes seemed a divining rod for the unlucky collision of history and architecture, it is because he unwittingly channeled weighty corporate and political forces through his choice of projects—the uneventful as much as the disastrous.
		Yamasaki and his firm came up with the plan for the iconic twin towers (which the architect had envisioned at 80 to 90 stories tall), but only after scrapping 105 different proposals in the design process.
		Yamasaki saw a direct relationship between the size of the towers and “a society such as ours, which is one of large-scale and grand achievements.” The architect, who died in 1986, was proud to have worked so hard to create the Twin Towers and to share, personally and professionally, in all their glory.
	www.americancity.org /article.php?id_article=62 (2469 words)

	Bin Laden's special complaint with the World Trade Center. By Laurie Kerr
		For Yamasaki, an architect with a keen mathematical mind and a taste for ornamental pattern-work, this brush with the intricate geometries of Islamic architecture was inspiring, and he began to incorporate arabesques and arches into his work.
		Yamasaki's courtyard mimicked Mecca's assemblage of holy sites—the Qa'ba (a cube) containing the sacred stone, what some believe is the burial site of Hagar and Ishmael, and the holy spring—by including several sculptural features, including a fountain, and he anchored the composition in a radial circular pattern, similar to Mecca's.
		(Minoru Yamasaki Associates won't say, but the Binladens were involved with almost all royal construction.) While Osama was in college in the mid-'70s, Yamasaki was designing his second generation of Saudi work, and the World Trade Center—then the tallest building in the world times two—came to completion in New York.
	www.slate.com /?id=2060207 (1460 words)

	Minoru Yamasaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minoru Yamasaki designed buildings for many universities in the US midwest in what is sometimes called a modified `International Style'.
		Yamasaki was chosen because of his imaginative concepts and his ability to relate design to the environment.
		Yamasaki's 100 year master plan for the development of Wascana Centre and the overall layout of the University of Regina were approved in 1962.
	www.phys.uregina.ca /sparro/huber/arch/yamasaki.html (1572 words)

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		Although we had used closely spaced columns in an earlier building, it was Minoru Yamasaki who proposed that we use narrow windows in the WTC towers to give people a sense of security as they looked down from on high.
		In support of Yamasaki's design, during the construction, before the windows were installed, I noticed that people felt comfortable walking up to the outside wall, placing their hands on the columns to either side, and enjoying the wonderful view.
		Minoru Yamasaki and his team, particularly Aaron Schreier, and the office of Emery Roth and Sons produced a wonderful architecture while making the entire process both fun and exciting.
	www.nae.edu /nae/bridgecom.nsf/BridgePrintView/CGOZ-58NLCB?OpenDocument (2753 words)

	Yamasaki, Minoru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yamasaki worked for prominent architectural firms in New York City from 1937 until 1949, when he formed his own company.
		In his design (1954) for the U.S. consulate general in Kobe, Japan, Yamasaki adapted elements of the Japanese aesthetic.
		Yamasaki's design for the U.S. science pavilion at the Seattle Exposition, 1962, is famed for its soaring arches and Gothic tracery.
	www.lichtensteiger.de /WTCyamasaki.html (178 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: Architect’s Great Vision Destroyed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Seattle native Minoru Yamasaki, whose greatest architectural vision was realized in New York’s World Trade Center towers, became determined to leave his mark while financing his education at the University of Washington on a 17-cents-an-hour summer cannery job.
		Yamasaki, a second-generation Japanese American, was born in humble circumstances in Seattle.
		Yamasaki’s early projects were known for their grace and seeming delicacy.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_09_21/news_architect.html (602 words)

	Minoru - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
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		Yamasaki, Minoru (1912-1986), American architect, known for his designs combining aesthetic appeal with functional efficiency.
		Makihara, Minoru (quotations): Business: In the United States, the shareholders are the…
	au.encarta.msn.com /Minoru.html (92 words)

	Minoru Yamasaki
		The distinctive style is similar to Yamasaki's design of the World Trade Center]] Despite a poor background, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington; he earned money to pay for his tuition by working at an Alaskan salmon cannery when not attending classes.
		After moving to New York City in the 1930s, he enrolled at New York University for a master's degree in architecture and got a job with the architecture firm Shreve, Lamb and Hermon, designers of the Empire State Building.
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	www.keywordmage.net /mi/minoru-yamasaki.html (427 words)

	Minoru Yamasaki, world-class architect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minoru Yamasaki was born Dec. 1, 1912, in Seattle, Wash., and as a Nisei -- a second-generation Japanese -- he encountered poverty and social injustices that instilled in him a deep-seated need to succeed.
		Yamasaki's projects were memorable for their delicate jewel-like designs.
		Yamasaki kept the elements of pools, skylighted interiors and 'space' in many of his later designs.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=206&category=people (1754 words)

	American Experience \| The Center of the World - New York: A Documentary Film \| Online Forum \| PBS
		Minoru Yamasaki died in 1986, never having quite lived down the impact of the World Trade Center on his career.
		It had made him, briefly, the most famous architect in the world; it had also been so frequently condemned that his reputation was always shadowed by a building he never lived long enough to see emerge from the clouds of controversy and disdain that followed it.
		Yamasaki thus has the curious distinction of being associated with not one but two large and ill-fated projects both of which fell to the ground long before anyone could have imagined.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/newyork/sfeature/sf_forum_0910.html (1567 words)

	New York Architecture Images- World Trade Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The program presented to Yamasaki, who was selected over a dozen other American architects, was quite explicit: twelve million square feet of floor area on a sixteen acre site, which also had to accommodate new facilities for the Hudson tubes and subway connections—all with a budget of under $500 million.
		Yamasaki re-examined the skyscraper from the first principles, considering no ground so hallowed that it could not be questioned, especially in view of the potential of modern technology.
		The floor construction is of prefabricated trussed steel, only 33 inches in depth, that spans the full 60 feet to the core, and also acts as a diaphragm to stiffen the outside wall against lateral buckling forces from wind-load pressures.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /GON/GON001.htm (2807 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Minoru Yamasaki
		Minoru Yamasaki, renowned Detroit architect, traces his architectural philosophy to two distant cultures--Renaissance Italy and his father's native Japan.
		Born in Seattle the son of a shoe salesman, Yamasaki drew much of his inspiration from a trip to Japan.
		Yamasaki has designed everything from an office building, a plush suburban home, and a downtown mall to a freeway.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=248738 (564 words)

	Minoru Yamasaki - Great Buildings Online
		"Minoru Yamasaki was an American architect who achieved fame in the late 1950s with his sensuous, textile-like structures, and who later changed the Manhattan skyline with the two towers of the World Trade Center.
		"...Yamasaki studied architecture at the University of Washington, graduating in 1934.
		It was during the Great Depression, a bad time for architects, and the young Yamasaki moved to New York, looking for work...
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Minoru_Yamasaki.html (574 words)

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		In 1970, at the height of his popularity, Minoru Yamasaki was chosen over a dozen other leading architects by the New York architectural firm of Emery Roth and Sons to be the chief designer for the largest construction project in the history of the city - the World Trade Center.
		In the wake of the September 11, 2001, tragedy that brought Yamasaki's towering vision of architectural majesty crashing to the ground less than two hours after being attacked by two hijacked jetliners, the structural design of the buildings is most interesting.
		Now, as a result of their surprising collapse, Yamasaki's engineering of the twin towers will, no doubt, be the subject of much study and no small amount of criticism.
	users.1st.net /jimlane/2001arch/9-15-01.html (872 words)

	World Trade Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings, mostly designed by Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki and developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
		The complex towers were designed by Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki with Antonio Brittiochi, and was one of the most striking American implementations of the architectural ethic of Le Corbusier, as well as the seminal expression of Yamasaki's gothic modernist tendencies.
		The towers' sheer size was the subject of a joke during a press conference unveiling the landmarks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WTC (3176 words)

	Philippine Post Magazine: A Symbolic Attack
		Minoru Yamasaki was born into a poor Japanese family.
		With a childhood marked by poverty, Yamasaki had a burning desire to be an architect.
		Not unlike the new ideas Yamasaki expressed with his design, to Rand New York was not only a place different in appearance from her Russian homeland, it represented a new way of thinking.
	www.philpost.com /0901pages/miller0901.html (955 words)

	Repeat - Rem Koolhaas Seattle Public Library - The Road to the new Library
		Seattle was the native city of Minoru Yamasaki, architect of the World Trade Center.
		Yamasaki's distinctive blending of technological bravado and a vaguely neoclassical gentility could be said to be a reflection of the Seattle, itself.
		Residents appear split in how they see the modesty of the city's architectural pretensions between those who view it as a mildly embarrassing failure of civic nerve, and those who consider it an expression of civic virtue, of refusing to be seduced by the superficial flash of superstar international architects.
	www.lynnbecker.com /repeat/seattle/seattleprocess.htm (733 words)

	Jetset - Designs for Modern Living: Past Forgetting: Minoru Yamasaki's World Trade Center
		Yamasaki’s commission was first presented to him as a very tight package of parameters: The Port Authority of New York wanted twelve million square feet of floor space, and new tunnel and subway facilities- all on a sixteen-acre landfill site.
		Yamasaki made the tower’s elevator system much less space intensive by creating a system of “local” and “express” elevators; one rode express to a Skylobby, then changed to a local elevator to get to the desired floor.
		The potent symbolism of the glittering twin towers was well understood by terrorists, who saw the possibility of their damage or destruction as the most terrifying message they could send to America.
	www.jetsetmodern.com /wtc.htm (1779 words)

	Columns Magazine, December 2001 - Our Back Pages: The Man Who Designed the Towers
		A native of Seattle, Yamasaki,, '34, was born on Dec. 1, 1912, in a cold-water tenement in the Yessler Hill district of Seattle.
		In 1933, the year Yamasaki would have qualified for the scholarship to study architecture in Paris, the program was terminated, officially "because of the depression" Yamasaki felt the school did not want to see an Asian American get the scholarship, "a blatant act of racial discrimination against me," he wrote years later.
		Yamasaki started his career as a draftsman in pre-war Manhattan, leaving in 1945 to become the head designer of a Detroit architectural firm.
	www.washington.edu /alumni/columns/dec01/backpages.html (588 words)

	Oberlin Conservatory Spring 2002
		"I explained to the reporter that although members of the community were aware of the Yamasaki connection, the community was in the midst of reacting to the tragedy in terms of loss of life, not in terms of architecture.
		A second-generation Japanese- American, Minoru Yamasaki rose from poverty to international fame for his distinctive structures.
		Yamasaki died in 1986 at age 73, but Minoru Yamasaki Associates of Rochester Hills, Michigan, still has an Oberlin connection Tae Sun Hong '87 is its senior vice president.
	www.oberlin.edu /con/connews/2002/feature1_4.html (549 words)

	World Trade Center
		Architect Minoru Yamasaki was selected to design the project; architects Emery Roth and Sons handled production work, and, at the request of Yamasaki, the firm of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson served as engineers.
		To achieve this, Yamasaki considered more than a hundred different building configurations before settling on the concept of twin towers and three lower-rise structures.
		Yamasaki and engineers John Skilling and Les Robertson worked closely, and the relationship between the towersí design and structure is clear.
	www.geocities.com /unicornrider7/wtc_building_facts.html (593 words)

	Yamasaki, Minoru on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Troy Marriott eyes nearby land; Yamasaki building likely to be torn down for expansion.
		YAMASAKI, MINORU [Yamasaki, Minoru], 1912-86, American architect, b.
		Destroying Minoru Yamasaki's symbol of peace is act of war.(Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yamasaki.asp (309 words)

	Architectural Mecca / Building design flavored by Islam / Most U.S. cities have buildings with echoes of Islamic design
		Yamasaki himself didn't publicize it, even though he dropped plenty of hints in his 1979 autobiography, "A Life in Architecture," in which he expressed his admiration for Islamic arches and included photos of all his important projects -- photos that reveal a pattern of Islamic-inspired design.
		Yamasaki, Wright and other architects were simply carrying out a long tradition of cross-cultural give-and-take, in which architects look to established traditions in other countries for inspiration.
		Yamasaki also went to New Delhi, where he designed a U.S. pavilion for the world's agricultural fair in 1959.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/28/INGMR9SEUB1.DTL&type=printable (2063 words)

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