OLD WORLD TRADE CENTER PLUS

OLD WORLD TRADE CENTER PLUS

He earned money to pay for his tuition by working at a salmon cannery in Alaska, working five summers and earning $50 a month, plus 25 cents an hour in overtime pay. During his college years, he was strongly encouraged by faculty member Lionel Pries. He enrolled in the University of Washington program in architecture in 1929, and graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) in 1934. The family later moved to Auburn, Washington, and he graduated from Garfield Senior High School in Seattle. Yamasaki was born on December 1, 1912, in Seattle, Washington, the son of John Tsunejiro Yamasaki and Hana Yamasaki, issei Japanese immigrants. His firm, Yamasaki & Associates, closed on December 31, 2009. ĭuring his three-decade career, he and his firm designed over 250 buildings.

He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of ' New Formalism'. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century.

Minoru Yamasaki ( 山崎實, Yamasaki Minoru, Decem– February 6, 1986) was a Japanese-American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. Inspiration from Gothic architecture and usage of narrow vertical windows

World Trade Center, 1973 ( destroyed 2001).

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