Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World by Gyure, Dale Allen

Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World

The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America's most significant...
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Author: Dale Allen Gyure
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Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World by Gyure, Dale Allen

Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World

BD$162.70

Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World

BD$162.70
Author: Dale Allen Gyure
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America's most significant architects

Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern materials and functional considerations of postwar American architecture with traditional elements such as arches and colonnades. Yamasaki's celebrated and iconic projects of the 1950s and '60s, including the Lambert-St. Louis Airport and the U.S. Science Pavilion in Seattle, garnered popular acclaim.

Despite this initial success, Yamasaki's reputation began to decline in the 1970s with the mixed critical reception of the World Trade Center in New York, one of the most publicized projects in the world at the time, and the spectacular failure of St. Louis's Pruitt-Igoe Apartments, which came to symbolize the flaws of midcentury urban renewal policy. And as architecture moved in a more critical direction influenced by postmodern theory, Yamasaki seemed increasingly old-fashioned. In the first book to examine Yamasaki's life and career, Dale Allen Gyure draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, and nearly 200 images, to contextualize his work against the framework of midcentury modernism and explore his initial successes, his personal struggles--including with racism--and the tension his work ultimately found in the divide between popular and critical taste.

Author: Dale Allen Gyure
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 11/28/2017
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.80lbs
Size: 11.70h x 9.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780300217094


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2018

About the Author

Dale Allen Gyure is professor of architecture at Lawrence Technological University and a member of the Minoru Yamasaki Advisory Board at Wayne State University.


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