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1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Gyure: nat Americans |
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Yamasaki: nat Americans |
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Yamasaki: eth Japanese Americans |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foundations -- Early work -- A new direction -- Staying the course -- Modern humanism -- Tall buildings -- The late works. |
| Summary |
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 In the first book to examine Yamasaki's life and career, Dale Allen Gyure draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, and nearly 200 images, to contextualize his work against the framework of midcentury modernism and explore his initial successes, his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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Architects -- United States -- Biography.
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Architects. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Humanism in architecture.
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Humanism in architecture. |
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Midcentury modern (Architecture)
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Midcentury modern (Architecture) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986, architect.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gyure, Dale Allen. Minoru Yamasaki. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press [2017] 9780300217094 (DLC) 2016960159 (OCoLC)1011582453 |
| ISBN |
9780300229868 (electronic book) |
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0300229860 (electronic book) |
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9780300217094 |
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0300217099 |
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