Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. – Minoru Yamasaki
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
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. – Minoru Yamasaki
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings dont go anywhere. They shouldnt be restless. – Minoru Yamasaki
They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others. – Saint Augustine of Hippo