Word: yamasaki
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...coverage has ranged from palaces to apartments, from skyscrapers to chapels. Over the years, TIME covers have covered the top newsmakers of the field, from Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic worshiper, back in 1926. through Frank Lloyd Wright in 1938, to this week's cover on Minoru Yamasaki...
...Cranston Jones, who is in charge of color projects for TIME, has written much about architecture for us, as well as three books on the subject. Art Editor Bruce Barton, who wrote the Le Corbusier cover story (May 5, 1961), this week takes up the work and personality of Yamasaki, who is trying to put back the beauty that he thinks Le Corbusier took out of architecture...
...creator of this pleasant pavilion is Architect Minoru Yamasaki, a wiry, 132-lb. Nisei who was born 50 years ago in a slum less than two miles from where the Science Pavilion now stands. In manner, he is the most courteous of men, often humble to a fault. But the core of the man is all steel, tempered not only by the anti-Nisei discrimination he has known, but also by his often lonely fight to reintroduce into architecture the embellishments that many modern architects tend to despise...
...this century, the French architect Auguste Perret declared, "Decoration always hides an error in construction"; later, the great Mies van der Rohe summed up the approach to purity and discipline in the phrase "Less is more." These tenets have to a large degree held sway ever since. But to Yamasaki, this architecture lacks "delight, serenity and surprise," and if he must have decoration to achieve these things, he will have it. Until the Seattle Pavilion opened, the unserene battle over architectural philosophy that Yamasaki stirred up was kept mostly within the profession, but the public reaction to the building brought...
...million center will be bigger than the original Rockefeller Center, and because of this vastness alone, the size and shape of the project will keep the profession in suspense for the next two or three years. "Some Real Dogs." Because of excessive ornamentation in his earlier work, Yamasaki's critics have tended to type cast him as an "exterior decorator," or cosmetician. Yamasaki is aware of the criticism - and agrees that much of it is deserved. "In the past few years," he will