Minoru Yamasaki

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Minoru Yamasaki (born December 1, 1912 in Seattle , Washington , USA ; † February 6, 1986 in Detroit , Michigan ) was an American architect . The World Trade Center in New York was one of his most famous projects .

Life

He studied architecture from 1930 at the University of Washington (BA 1934) and then at the University of New York . He initially worked for the Shreve, Lamb and Harmon bureau . In 1945 he moved to Detroit, where he was employed by Smith, Hinchman, and Grylls ; In 1949 he left the company and founded his own office. In 1960 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1982 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Through his travels he developed a style that was influenced by Indian and Japanese influences. In 1961 he was responsible for the design of the Dhahran Air Terminal . Five years later his most famous design, the World Trade Center, was realized in New York . Minoru Yamasaki suffered from fear of heights.

meaning

The architect Yamasaki was, along with other large buildings (see below), both the planner of the New York World Trade Center and the Pruitt-Igoe social estate in St. Louis (completed in 1956). The latter was destroyed comparatively shortly after it was built in 1972 : It was deliberately blown up because the social structure had disintegrated to such an extent that no other solution to save the district seemed in sight. The demolition of the settlement was taken as a beacon of so-called functionalist modernity in the film Koyaanisqatsi as an occasion for contemporary critical consideration, as well as one of the reference objects in Tom Wolfe's From Bauhaus To Our House , in which the author formulates a devastating criticism of architectural modernity . The culturally critical term “Einstürzende Neubauten” refers primarily to the pictures from the well-documented demolition measure of the Pruitt Igoe settlement. The architecture critic and historian Charles Jencks in his programmatic essay The Language of Post-Modern Architecture dates the end of modernism to the moment when the first three building complexes in the Pruitt-Igoe residential area in St. Louis were blown up in 1972.

plant

Buildings in the United States

Start of planning ;
construction time
State
city
address image object measure Remarks
1950 ;
around 1955
Missouri
St. Louis
Cass Avenue, North Jefferson Avenue, Carr Street, North 20th Street
location
Pruitt-igoeUSGS02.jpg
Pruitt-Igoe (social housing) New building (client: City of St. Louis) Blasted 1972–1976
1951 Michigan
Detroit
160 West Fort Street
location
FederalReserveBankDetroit.jpg
(Cultivation in the background)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building Cultivation Abandoned by the Federal Reserve in 2004
1951 ;
1956
Missouri
St. Louis
Lambert International Boulevard
location
Main Terminal, Lambert-St.  Louis International Airport.jpg St. Louis Airport : Terminal New building
1951 ;
1952-1955
Missouri
Overland, St. Louis County
9700 Page Avenue
location
Military Personnel Records Center New building (client: Department of Defense )
around 1954 Michigan
Grosse Pointe Woods, Wayne County
1045 Cook Road
location
Grosse Pointe University School: two school buildings, gym, auditorium, library and "fine arts rooms" New building today "University Liggett School"
1955 Michigan
Royal Oak
422 West 11 Mile Road
location
"Land's Pharmacy" (pharmacy) New building after 2008 rebuilt as the headquarters for an advertising agency
1955 Michigan
Detroit
19631 Argyle Crescent
location
Home for S. Brooks and Florence Barron New building
1955 Michigan
Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne County
61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard photo Christ Church of Grosse Pointe Farms: Education Building New building canceled before 2000
1955 ;
1958
Michigan
Detroit
495 Ferry Mall
location
McGregor Center Wayne State Univ A.JPG Wayne State University : McGregor Memorial Conference Center New building Registered Historic Place
1955 ;
1959
Michigan
Southfield
16000 Northland Drive
location
Reynolds Building.JPG Reynolds Metals Regional Sales Office New building Received an “Honor Award” from the American Institute of Architects in 1961
until 1956 Michigan
Livonia
Lincoln Elementary School New building canceled
1957 Michigan
Warren
5005 Chicago Road
location
First United Methodist Church New building
1957 Michigan
West Country
2601 Treadwell
location
Albert Schweitzer Elementary School New building
1958 Michigan
Detroit
245 East Kirby Street
location
CCS Detroit.jpg
("Yamasaki Building" left)
Society for Arts and Crafts (art college; since 2001 "College for Creative Studies") New building now called "Yamasaki Building"
1958 Michigan
Detroit
22470 West Seven Mile Road
location
Headquarters of the "American Concrete Institute" (ACI) New building Abandoned by the ACI in 1996
1958 ;
1963
Michigan
Detroit
1 Woodward Avenue
location
OneWoodwardAvenue.JPG Headquarters of the "Michigan Consolidated Gas Company" New building today "One Woodward Avenue"
1958-1959 Michigan
Bloomfield Hills
38651 Woodward Avenue
location
Birmingham Unitarian Church New building
until 1959 Michigan
Wayne
33555 Annapolis Street
location
Benjamin Franklin Junior High School (now "Franklin Middle School") New building Received an “Award of Merit” (1959) from the American Institute of Architects
1959 ;
1962
Washington
Seattle
200 2nd Avenue North
location
Pacific Science Center, 1968.jpg Federal Science Pavilion for the Century 21 Exposition New building today science museum "Pacific Science Center"
1959 ;
1960-1961
Minnesota
Northfield
215 Goodsell Circle
location
Carleton College : Olin Hall of Science New building
1959 ;
1961
Minnesota
Northfield
Olin Dr
location
Carleton College : Student residence for women ("Myers Hall"; built 1958) Increase
1959 ;
1962
Minnesota
Northfield
Three Oaks Drive / Olin Dr
location
Carleton College : Student Dormitory for Men ("Goodhue Hall") New building
1959 ;
1964
Minnesota
Northfield
Division Street
location
Carleton College : West High School (gym) New building
1959 ;
1965
Minnesota
Northfield
Evans Dr
location
Carleton College : Gym ("Cowling Recreation Center") New building
1959 ;
1965
Minnesota
Northfield
Maple Street
location
Carleton College : Student Dormitory for Women ("Watson Hall") New building
1959 ;
1964
Hawaii
Honolulu
Lunanilo Fly
location
Queen Emma Gardens (residential complex made up of three high-rise buildings) New building (client: Honolulu Redevelopment Agency)
1959 ;
1964
Illinois
Glencoe
1185 Sheridan Road
location
North Shore Congregation Israel ( Synagogue ) New building
1960 Michigan
West Country
35100 Bayview Street John Marshall Middle School New building
1959-1961 Michigan
East Lansing
120 West Saginaw Street
location
Michigan State Medical Society.jpg Headquarters of the "Michigan State Medical Society" New building Registered Historic Place and "Michigan Historical Site"
around 1959;
1962-1964
Michigan
Detroit
5201, 5203 Cass Avenue
location
Prentis Building and DeRoy Auditorium WSU Detroit MI.jpg Wayne State University : "Prentis Building" and "DeRoy Auditorium" (connected building complex) New building Registered Historic Place
1960 Michigan
Houghton
Woodmar Drive
location
Michigan Technological University : Dormitory for Married Students ("Sheldon Heights") New building today "Daniell Heights"
1960 Michigan
Detroit
5425 Gullen Mall
location
Education Building Wayne State Univ A.JPG Wayne State University : College of Education New building
1961 ;
1964
Minnesota
Minneapolis
20 Washington Avenue South
location
Nicollet-20080925.jpg Northwestern National Life Insurance Company New building today "ING Reliastar Building"
1961 ;
1965
New Jersey
Princeton
location Wws-robertson-hall.jpeg Princeton University : Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs ("Robertson Hall") New building
1961 ;
1966
California
Los Angeles
2025 Avenue of the Stars
location
CenturyPlazaHotel.jpg Century Plaza Hotel in Century City New building (client: Western International Hotels ) now a Hyatt Regency hotel
1962 ;
1964
Washington
Seattle
1200 Fifth Avenue
location
Ibm building in seattle.jpg Office building for IBM New building (client: University of Washington )
1962 ;
1968-1971
New York
New York
West Street / Liberty Street
location
World Trade Center, New York City - aerial view (March 2001) (modified version with desaturated towers) .jpg World Trade Center : WTC 1 + 2 ("Twin Towers": "North Tower" and "South Tower") including plaza ("World Trade Center Plaza") New building (with Emery Roth & Sons ; client: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ) Destroyed in 2001
1962 ;
1970-1972
New York
New York
Vesey Street / Church Street
location
FEMA - 3999 - Photograph by Michael Rieger taken on 09-21-2001 in New York.jpg
(after the 2001 destruction)
World Trade Center : WTC 5 ("Northeast Plaza Building") New building (with Emery Roth & Sons ; client: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ) Partially destroyed in 2001 and broken off in 2002
1962 ;
1970-1973
New York
New York
West Street / Vesey Street
location
World Trade Center 6 after the 9-11 attacks.jpg
(after the 2001 destruction)
World Trade Center : WTC 6 for the "United States Customs Service" (customs authority) New building (with Emery Roth & Sons ; client: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ) Destroyed in 2001
1962 ;
1970-1975
New York
New York
Liberty Street / Church Street
location
World Trade Center : WTC 4 ("Southeast Plaza Building") New building (with Emery Roth & Sons ; client: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ) Destroyed in 2001
1963 Ohio
Oberlin
77 West College Street
location
Oberlin music2.jpg Oberlin College : "Bibbins Hall" for the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (music conservatory) New building
1963 Indiana
Indianapolis
4600 Sunset Avenue
location
Irwin2.JPG Butler University Library (1965 in "Irwin Library" named) New building
1963 Massachusetts
Cambridge
33 Kirkland Street
location
William James Hall, Harvard University.jpg Harvard University : Behavioral Sciences Building ("William James Hall") New building
1963 ;
1967
New York
Buffalo
1 M&T Plaza
location
M&T Plaza.jpg Headquarters of the "Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company" (M&T Bank) New building (with Duane Lyman)
1965;
1969
Massachusetts
Boston
1 Harborside Drive
location
Logan International Airport : Terminal for Eastern Air Lines (Terminal A) New building Canceled in 2002
1965-1968 California
San Francisco
1610 Geary Boulevard
location
Japantown-AMC-Pagoda.jpg Japanese Cultural and Trade Center ( shopping mall ) in Japantown New building today called "Japan Center"
1966 Ohio
Oberlin
10 North Professor St
Location
Oberlin College - King Building entry.jpg Oberlin College : "King Building" (teaching building) New building
1966 Michigan
West Country
7420 Wayne Road
location
Quo Vadis Entertainment Center (cinema) New building Canceled in 2011
1967 Michigan
Troy
250 West Big Beaver Road
location
Minoru Yamasaki and Associates Office (office building for Yamasaki's architectural firm) New building
1968 Hawaii
Honolulu
1350 Ala Moana Boulevard
location
Residential high-rise (condominiums) New building
1968;
1973
Illinois
Springfield
1 Horace Mann Plaza
location
Headquarters of “Horace Mann Educators”, insurance company New building
1968;
1974
Michigan
Bloomfield Township
7400 Telegraph Road
location
TempleBethElBloomfieldHillsMi.jpg Temple Beth-El ( synagogue and community center) New building
1968;
1975
California
Los Angeles
2029, 2049 Century Park East
location
CenturyPlazaTowers.jpg Century Plaza Towers in Century City New building (client: Alcoa )
1969;
1974
Colorado
Denver
950 17th Street
location
US Bank tower in Denver Colorado.jpg office building New building (client: Colorado National Bank) today "US Bank Tower"
1971;
1978
Virginia
Richmond
701 East Byrd Street
location
Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, Virginia.jpg Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond New building
1972 Michigan
Highland Park, Wayne County
photo Walter Chrysler Building in the "Chrysler Center" ( Chrysler headquarters ) New building
1972 Illinois
Chicago
535 West Chicago Avenue
location
The Montgomery.jpg Montgomery Ward Company Complex: "The Montgomery" (high-rise) New building 2005–2006 converted into condominiums (changing the facade)
1972 Michigan
Bloomfield Township
3717 Lakecrest Drive
location
House for the Yamasaki couple New building Registered Historic Place
1972;
1977
Oklahoma
Tulsa
1 Williams Center
location
The BOK Building.jpg Williams Center: Headquarters of the "Bank of Oklahoma" ("Bank of Oklahoma Tower") New building (client: Williams Companies ) today mostly “BOK Tower”; Headquarters of the BOK Financial Corporation
1972;
1977
Washington
Seattle
1301 Fifth Avenue
location
Rainier Tower Seattle Washington.jpg "Rainier (Bank) Tower" for the "National Bank of Commerce" (from 1974 "Rainier Bank") New building (with NBBJ; client: University Properties Inc.)
1973;
1976
Oklahoma
Tulsa
110 E 2nd Street
location
Williams Center: Tulsa Performing Arts Center New building (client: PACI)
1976 Pennsylvania
Lancaster
415 Harrisburg Avenue
location
Franklin & Marshall College: "Steinman College Center" (named 1978) New building
1979-1981 Minnesota
Minneapolis
100 Washington Avenue South
location
100 Washington Square Minneapolis 1.jpg "100 Washington Square" office building New building today part of the " ING Reliastar Complex"
1982 Ohio
Toledo
640 Jackson Street
location
One Government Center (high-rise, government building) New building 1986 named "Michael DiSalle Government Center"

Buildings in other states

Start of planning ;
construction time
State
city
address image object measure Remarks
1955 Japan
Kobe
United States Consulate New building not serving as a consulate since the 1980s
1959 ;
1959
India
New Delhi
"United States Pavilion" for the "World Agricultural Fair" New building (client: Department of Commerce ) reduced
1959 ;
1961
Saudi Arabia
Dhahran
King Saud Road
location
Dhahran International Airport: Terminal ("Dhahran Air Terminal") New (Client: United States Army Corps of Engineers ) Motif on Saudi Arabian banknotes ; today "King Abdulaziz Air Base" of the Royal Saudi Air Force
1961 ;
1966-1967
Canada
Regina
3737 Wascana Parkway
location
Lab, classroom and library buildings.jpg Park “Wascana Center” with the adjacent Regina campus of the University of Saskatchewan (University of Regina since 1974) Master plan including drafts for classroom building, laboratory and library ( see below ) The teaching building and laboratory have only been preserved in a changed condition
until 1962 ;
1967 – around 1980
Iran
Shiraz
location Shirazu admin.jpg Pahlavi University (since 1979 "Shiraz University") Master plan
1967 Canada
Regina
3737 Wascana Parkway
location
University of Regina Library viewed from the Oval.jpg University of Saskatchewan , Campus Regina (University of Regina since 1974): library New building since 1999 “Dr. John Archer Library "
1973 ;
1981
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
3896 Ma'ather street
location
Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency New building
1975 ;
1983 ff.
Saudi Arabia
Dammam
King Fahd Road
location
Saudi Aramco airplanes parked in the general aviation terminal, King Fahd International Airport.JPG King Fahd International Airport (working title "Eastern Province International Airport") New building (client: Ministry of Defense and Civil Aviation ) opened in 1999
1978 ;
1982
Japan
Shiga prefecture
location "Founder's Hall" for Shinji Shūmeikai New building
1979 Japan
Tokyo
1-1-50 Shirokanedai
location
Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo2.JPG Radisson Miyako Hotel New building (interior designer: Togo Murano ) extensively rebuilt after 2000; today " Sheraton Miyako Hotel"
1980 ;
1982-1988
Spain
Madrid
Paseo de la Castellana
location
Torre Picasso - 01.jpg Torre Picasso in the AZCA New building (with Jorge Mir Valls and Rafael Coll Pujol)

Individual evidence

  1. Members: Minoru Yamasaki. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 5, 2019 .
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Minoru Yamasaki: A life in architecture . 1st edition, Weatherhill, New York 1979, ISBN 0-8348-0136-1 .
  3. ^ The National Personnel Records Center - A History , National Archives
  4. ^ History of Liggett ( February 3, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ), University Liggett School
  5. Historic Royal Oak Landmark Houses Growing Advertising Agency ( September 21, 2013 memento in the Internet Archive ), Know Advertising, January 23, 2013
  6. ^ S. Brooks and Florence Barron House ( February 3, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ), Michigan Modern
  7. Dale Allen Gyure: Yamasaki's Most Important Architecture In & Around Detroit , Curbed, August 1, 2013
  8. a b c d Minoru Yamasaki - Architecture in Michigan , Michigan Modern
  9. ^ A Brief History And Tour of Christ Church Grosse Pointe ( Memento of January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Christ Church Grosse Point
  10. Graduate students help Southfield with Mid-Century Modern design guidelines - Tech News ( Memento February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Lawrence Technological University, September 14, 2011
  11. a b c d The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founder, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Molding the Thought of the Present Time , JT White, 1964, p. 749.
  12. ^ Current Biography Yearbook, Volume 23 , HW Wilson Co., 1962, p. 47.
  13. ^ State Historic Preservation Office, Michigan Historical Center, Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries: An Honor and an Ornament: Public School Buildings in Michigan , September 2003
  14. ^ Facilities - Yamasaki Building , College for Creative Studies
  15. ^ American Concrete Institute Building ( Memento dated February 3, 2014 on the Internet Archive ), Michigan Modern
  16. ^ American Concrete Institute , Michigan Modern
  17. ^ UUA Congregational Record
  18. Interview with Minoru Yamasaki about Franklin Junior High School ( Memento from January 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), approx. August 1959 [Archives of American Art]
  19. Historic Campus Architecture Project - Olin Hall of Science , The Council of Independent Colleges
  20. ^ A b c d e Facilities Management - Historical Building Information , Carleton College
  21. Historic Campus Architecture Project - West Gymnasium ( Memento February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), The Council of Independent Colleges
  22. Michigan State Medical Society Building ( February 3, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ), Michigan Modern
  23. ^ Michigan Technological University, Sheldon Heights (Daniell Heights) - Michigan Tech , Copper Country Architects
  24. ^ The WSU Yamasaki Legacy - College of Education , Wayne State University
  25. 50 Years of Irwin Library 1963–2013 ( February 1, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ), Butler University Libraries
  26. Margaret Henderson Floyd (ed.); Bainbridge Bunting: Harvard: An Architectural History , Harvard University Press, 1998, p. 239.
  27. ^ The Department of Psychology - William James Hall ( Memento November 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Harvard University
  28. ^ Western Addition A-1 ( Memento January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Successor Agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
  29. ^ Japan Better Neighborhood Plan - Japan Center , San Francisco Planning Department
  30. ^ Facility Detail - King Building ( Memento January 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Oberlin College
  31. ^ Quo Vadis Theater , Michigan Modern
  32. Entry on 1350 Ala Moana Boulevard at Emporis (English)
  33. ^ The Board's Bulletin Board , 1350 Ala Moana Boulevard, August 2, 2010
  34. Entry about The Montgomery at Emporis (English)
  35. ^ Understated tower makes for fine homes , Chicago Tribune News, April 2, 2005
  36. The Montgomery ( Memento of 2 February 2014 Internet Archive ), Pappageorge Haymes Partners
  37. ^ Minoru and Teruko Yamasaki House , Michigan Modern
  38. ^ History of Unico
  39. ^ Steinman College Center , Franklin & Marshall College
  40. Entry on 100 Washington Square at Emporis (English)
  41. Entry on Michael DiSalle Government Center at Emporis (English)
  42. ^ Richard G. Zimmerman: Call Me Mike: A Political Biography of Michael V. DiSalle , Kent State University Press, 2003, p. 282.
  43. ^ The Japan Architect , Vol. 60, Shinkenchiku-Sha Co., 1985, p. 4.
  44. Alex Kerr: Lost Japan , ISBN 978-0-86442-370-2 , p. 233
  45. ^ The Iranian History Article: Foundation of Shiraz University
  46. The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Molding the Thought of the Present Time , JT White, 1964, p. 749.
  47. ^ Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1963
  48. Eyewitness Travel Tokyo ( Memento of February 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , Dorling Kindersley Limited, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7566-6203-5 , p. 116.
  49. a b Michael Webb: Radisson Miyako Tokyo: The Japanese Modernist Structure Rediscovers Its Cultural Roots, Restoration Architecture by Minoru Yamasaki / Interior Design by Hirsch Bedner Associates . In: Architectural Digest , January 2004

Remarks

  1. if only one year is given: year of completion
  2. Structural engineer: Alfred A. Yee
  3. ^ University Properties, Inc.
  4. ^ Structural planning: Magnusson Klemencic Associates , Leslie E. Robertson ; Geotechnical Engineers: Engineering Department of the Port Authority; General contractor: Tishman Realty & Construction
  5. ^ Structural planning: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
  6. A few floors were planned as a future expansion of the neighboring bank headquarters.
  7. Structural design: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
  8. handed over to the City of Tulsa after completion of the building
  9. if only one year is given: year of completion

Web links

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