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Minoru Yamasaki

Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986) was a Japanese and American architect, best known for the Pruitt–Igoe housing project and for his design of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

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Minoru Yamasaki

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.

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Minoru Yamasaki

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

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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.

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Minoru Yamasaki

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

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Minoru Yamasaki

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.

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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.

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Minoru Yamasaki