6 Quotes & Sayings By Minoru Yamasaki

Minoru Yamasaki was an American architect, best known for his work on the World Trade Center in New York City. He is considered, along with Walter Gropius, to be one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. Yamasaki's architectural designs are noted for their rationalist style, which rejected the International Style of modernism and embraced open floor plans, natural lighting, and daylight.

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We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. Minoru Yamasaki
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So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. Minoru Yamasaki
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If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. Minoru Yamasaki
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I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future. Minoru Yamasaki
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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. Minoru Yamasaki