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Minoru Yamasaki
December 1, 1912 - February 6, 1986
Nationality: American
Category: Architect
Subcategory: American Architect

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

   

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.

   

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

   

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

   

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.

   

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

   

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

   

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

   

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

   

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

   

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.

   

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

   

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

   

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

   

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

   

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

   

The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.

   

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.

   

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

   

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

   

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