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...delighted with the well-deserved recognition you have conferred on Minoru Yamasaki [Jan. 18], one of the greatest architects of our age. We are particularly pleased that we were "ahead of time" when we asked Yama in 1959 to design the "gracefully vaulted synagogue" you refer...
...sorry that you did not take the occasion to reproduce the artist's concept; a building that Yama has pointed out to us is not only his most beautiful in design, but most deeply philosophic in feeling. To illustrate the latter point, I can only say that we have a great respect for the humanism in architecture, which is Yama's keynote. When he was awarded the commission to do our temple, he spent considerable time not only in researching the precepts of Reform Judaism, but in attending our services. So deeply did he become involved that (recognizing...
...would like to add something that Yama once said about his profession: "An architect, to implement our way of life, must recognize those human characteristics we cherish most: Love, Gentility, Joy, Serenity, Beauty and Hope...
...grown to 70 associates, engineers, designers, modelmakers and secretaries, who include a Burmese, a Thai, a Filipino, a Chinese, two Japanese, two Latvians and a Briton. Yamasaki knows everyone by his first name, no matter how green or young the employee may be; and he insists on being called Yama in return. The office may be a madhouse, but no detail is ever too minor for Yamasaki's careful attention, whether it be the type of door handle he wants for a new office building or the precise style of lettering that should go on the doors that...
...famous Seattle Pavilion, one top Manhattan architect says : "The Pavilion's structure looks as if you could buy it by the section and glue it together." Adds an other Manhattanite, Architect I. M. Pei: "The water in the courtyard is fine, very successful, but the building is not. Yama mass-produced a façade in the Gothic idiom