Word: minoru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the credo of Minoru Yamasaki, who at 46 is turning out some of the gayest and most graceful buildings in the U.S. In recognition of Yamasaki's growing stature among U.S. architects, the Detroit Institute of Arts will open next week a full-scale show of his past works and future projects, timed to coincide with the dedication of Yamasaki's newest building -the Detroit headquarters of Reynolds Metals Co. Though its grille of gold anodized aluminum owes an unabashed debt to Architect Ed Stone, the Reynolds building, on a 4½-acre plot...
Concrete & Paper Fans. Minoru Yamasaki's $1,172,000 conference building at Wayne University in Detroit is almost too pretty to be great. But it does promise well for the 60 acres of new campus construction that Wayne and Yamasaki hope to add. A Seattle-born Nisei, Yamasaki is in love both with Western technology and Oriental refinement. His crisp little temple of talk, set beside a reflecting pool, owes a lot to the Taj Mahal, something to Japanese paper fans, and most of all to modern engineering in glass and concrete. Yamasaki puts precision over ornamentation and lets...
...Honorable mentions: Japan's Minoru Kawabata, 47; France's Edouard Pignon, 53; Canada's Jean-Paul Riopelle, 35; Portugal's Maria Helena Vieira da Silva...
...simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable." Judge Minoru Kamiizumi agreed, set Merten free because the marine "had been drinking whisky for several hours, showed symptoms of pathological intoxication and was in a state of mental unsoundness...
...Minoru and her husband, a onetime airplane mechanic, had been faced with a choice at war's end: to return to the hopelessness of the burned-out ruins of Tokyo or to start a new life as pioneers on the far northern island of Hokkaido. Government posters showed Hokkaido's inviting green landscapes, its fat dairy herds, its red brick silos and its snug, warm farmhouses. Along with some 190,000 other Japanese families, the Gotos seized the opportunity...