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In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

Minoru Yamasaki

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Minoru Yamasaki
Age: 73 †
Born: 1912
Born: December 1
Died: 1986
Died: February 7
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I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
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But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
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Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
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And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.
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And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
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And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
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If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.
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The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
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I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
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Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
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I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.
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I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could
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In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
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And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
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Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.
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I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.
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