Yamasaki, Minoru; Gyure, Dale Allen

Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World [2017 1ST EDITION 1ST PRINTING - FINE]

Yale University Press, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Yale University Press, 2017. Hardcover in pictorial boards. First Edition, First Printing (with the full numberline ending in 1). 13 x 11 inches.  285 pages with numerous photographic images and illustrations throughout.  BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tigth, clean copy protected by a new, clean mylar cover.

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,. In the first book to examine Yamasaki’s life and career, Dale Allen Gyure draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, and nearly 200 images, to contextualize his work against the framework of midcentury modernism and explore his initial successes, his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.. Item #11292
ISBN: 9780300217094

Price: $550.00