{"id":15324,"date":"2022-05-05T22:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T22:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&p=15324"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:23:57","slug":"minoru-yamazaki-by-dale-allen-gyure","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/minoru-yamazaki-by-dale-allen-gyure\/","title":{"rendered":"Minoru Yamazaki by Dale Allen Gyure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America\u2019s most significant architects<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912\u20131986) 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\u2019s celebrated and iconic projects of the 1950s and \u201960s, including the Lambert\u2013St. Louis Airport and the U.S. Science Pavilion in Seattle, garnered popular acclaim.<\/p>\n

Despite this initial success, Yamasaki\u2019s 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, and the spectacular failure of St. Louis\u2019s Pruitt-Igoe Apartments, which came to symbolize the flaws of midcentury urban renewal policy. And as architecture moved in a more critical direction influenced by postmodern theory, Yamasaki seemed increasingly old-fashioned. In the first book to examine Yamasaki\u2019s life and career, Dale Allen Gyure draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, and nearly 200 images, to contextualize his work against the framework of midcentury modernism and explore his initial successes, his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\u2014including with racism\u2014and the tension his work ultimately found in the divide between popular and critical taste.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe architect [Minoru Yamasaki], as this deeply-researched, lucidly-written and handsomely-illustrated book shows, was driven, brilliant and insecure. And he was exploring paths \u2014 particularly our emotional response to architecture and architects\u2019 search for inspiration from the past \u2014 we are still traveling down today.\u201d \u201d\u2014Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune<\/p>\n

\u201cGyure does his subject justice. His adept presentation allows us to think anew about Yamasaki\u2019s legacy. Gyure provides a wealth of insight on the architect\u2019s values and his approach to design, and he reveals the complex, conflicted nature of his career.\u201d\u2014Richard Longstreth, George Washington University<\/p>\n

\u201cMinoru Yamasaki was one of the brightest lights in the extraordinary galaxy of mid-20th century architectural talent. We have waited a long time for an adequate re-appraisal of his work, but this meticulously researched and judiciously rendered account will firmly re-establish his reputation.\u201d\u2014Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois at Chicago<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 296 Pages, 9.00 x 11.50 in, 70 color + 119 b-w illus. 3.75 lbs, ISBN 9780300217094 Yale University Press, 2017. New Mint copy in decorative hardcovers, oversized, available as issued still in original publisher shrinkwrap, beautiful! [4.3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America\u2019s most significant architects Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912\u20131986) 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15325,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[511,512],"class_list":["post-15324","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-architecture","product_tag-minoru-yamasaki","product_tag-modernism","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/15324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=15324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}