Minoru Yamasaki (December 1 1912 - February 6 1986) was an American architect best known for his design of the World Trade Center which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century and his firm, Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, continues to live on. He and fellow architect Edward Durrell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of "romanticized modernism". Wikipedia
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But its celebrated architect, the late Minoru Yamasaki, began life in humble circumstances in Seattle in 1912. seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/38737_architect13.shtml
"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 . www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Minoru_Yamasaki.html
Yamasaki - Detroit 95 By Kam . The wall is just like a piece of fabric, giving a human touch on this skyscraper. hubpages.com/_home/hub/Yamasaki_-_Detroit
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. His father, John Tsunejiro Yamasaki, was a pur info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.c...
The World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Minoru Yamasaki , was a complex of seven office buildings and an enormous underground shopping concourse. What made the World Trade Center famous is the two towers, the North Tower and the South Tower. lycos.cs.cmu.edu/info/minoru-yamasaki--new-york.html
Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912 - February 6, 1986) was an American architect, born in Seattle, Washington, a second-generation Japanese-American. Despite a poor background, he earned a degree from the University of Washington, where he paid his way by www.biographybase.com/biography/Yamasaki_Minoru.html
