Minoru Yamasaki

Minoru Yamasaki

Minoru Yamasaki is an American architect who was best known for his design of the World Trade Center. He founded an incorporation called Yamasaki Associates, Inc in 1955. Minoru tries to design environmental friendly buildings for education, healthcare, mixed use, and government markets throughout the world. Minoru has also designed over 50 buildings all across the world. He designed the World Trade Center in 1965 and constructed it in 1972,
Yamasaki was one of the most important architects of the 20th century. He and his fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitiones of “romanticized modernism”. Yamasaki had been elected as a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1960. He won the First Honor Award three times there.
Minoru Yamasaki is a neat architect in a way, he has designed many buildings that not only look cool but are also environmentally friendly. He also has many up and coming buildings that he is designing currently like the Seoul City Hall Expansion(to right).
Yamasaki’s most famous architectural design was the design of the World Trade Center in New York. This building was 13.4 million square feet. It was later destroyed in a terrorist act on September 11th of 2001. The interior had 47 columns, all concentrated in the core. It was 1368 feet high and 1362. Construction of a world trade center had been under consideration since the end of WW2. It was then opened in April 4, 1973.

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