Word: minoru
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...come to be labeled Post-Modern, and suggests that the term should be restricted to hybrid, "impure" buildings that are designed around historical memory, local context, metaphor, spatial ambiguity and an intense concern with architectural linguistics. That, obviously, excludes the glass-cliff builders like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Minoru Yamasaki of the World Trade Center, or spokesmen of cultural grandeur like I.M. Pei. Indeed, given the architecture Americans have had for 40 years, such a description virtually deprives Post-Modernism of living father figures. There are, of course, dead grandfathers, from the Catalan master of Art Nouveau, Antoni Gaudi...
...surprise by the immense demand for our sets. We are willing to level off exports at 2.5 million per year." But U.S. manufacturers were pressing for a rollback to no more than 1.3 million Japanese sets. Later, Strauss met in Washington with Japan's Vice Minister of Trade, Minoru Masuda; they continued their talks during the early May economic summit in London. Last week Strauss and the Japanese ambassador signed an understanding that obliges Japan for the next three years to cut its color TV exports to the U.S. to just 41% of the 1976 level-1.75 million sets...
...than $200 million in new downtown construction, reversing the familiar urban pattern of decay and turning the area into a bright and active commercial district. The new 51-story IDS tower, designed by Philip Johnson, is the tallest and most distinguished building between Chicago and San Francisco. Other adornments: Minoru Yamasaki's gracefully pillared Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. Building, and Gunnar Birkerts' Federal Reserve Bank, built along the sweeping lines of a suspension bridge...
...character of the master is closely modeled on the great Kitani Minoru, who actually played a similarly notable match in 1938-a match that Kawabata covered as a correspondent for Tokyo and Osaka newspapers. The Master of Go is thus not so much a novel as a fictionalized meditation on a real event. Kawabata deliberately dissipates the drama of the match by splintering its chronology. His narrative spirals through the book's events in ruminative glides and turns, ending where it began, with the master's death. Commonplace images-a girl on a bridge tossing bread to carp...
...million project, designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki (who also designed New York's World Trade Center), attracted national attention as a model of public housing when it was built 16 years ago Its 33 slablike buildings contained modern plumbing, and there were plans for garden apartments and generous landscaping. Yamasaki's "skip stop" elevators opened on only every third floor, which he hoped would become galleries for strolling and games...