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Quote by Minoru Yamasaki
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings dont

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings dont go anywhere. They shouldnt be restless. – Minoru Yamasaki

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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of mans dedication to world peace… a representation of mans belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. – Minoru Yamasaki

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Peace
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Minoru Yamasaki
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The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus. – Minoru Yamasaki

Category:
Education
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Minoru Yamasaki
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If you examine this, I think that you will find that its the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. – Minoru Yamasaki

Category:
architecture
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Minoru Yamasaki
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Other Quotes from
architecture
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There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. – James H. Breasted

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architecture

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. – Adolf Loos

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architecture

I like to play with architecture! Its my favorite game. – Jean Nouvel

Category:
architecture

In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit — if totally different in form — from all the romantic architecture of the past. – Dan Cruickshank

Category:
architecture

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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. – Imogen Cunningham

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