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Minoru Yamasaki

1912 - 1986

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Minoru Yamasaki (山崎 實, Yamasaki Minoru; December 1, 1912 – February 6, 1986) was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of "New Formalism". During his three-decade career, he and his firm designed over 250 buildings. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Minoru Yamasaki is the 119th most popular architect (down from 94th in 2019), the 1,829th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,070th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Architect.

Minoru Yamasaki is most famous for his design of the World Trade Center in New York City.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 119 out of 518. Before him are Ricardo Bofill, George Gilbert Scott, Rafael Moneo, Auguste Perret, Carl Gotthard Langhans, and César Pelli. After him are Peter Eisenman, Hannes Meyer, Amenhotep, son of Hapu, Eliel Saarinen, Balthasar Neumann, and Inigo Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 72. Before him are Abbé Pierre, Rodolfo Gucci, John Cheever, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Pat Nixon, and John Payne. After him are Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, György Sárosi, José Ferrer, Hermann Graf, Pedro Armendáriz, and Lev Gumilyov. Among people deceased in 1986, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 54. Before him are Dean Reed, Donna Reed, Coluche, Aleksandr Akimov, Michel de Certeau, and Theodor Busse. After him are Erik Bruhn, Adolfo Celi, Otto Preminger, Gusztáv Sebes, Ferdinand Daučík, and Marcel Dassault.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 1,829 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Serra (1939), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Kevin McHale (1957), Jim Lovell (1928), Douglas McGregor (1906), and Dorothy Vaughan (1910). After him are Teri Hatcher (1964), Larry Flynt (1942), Henry Rollins (1961), Nick Adams (1931), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), and Mary Todd Lincoln (1818).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 7. Before him are Buckminster Fuller (1895), Louis Sullivan (1856), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Richard Meier (1934), Philip Johnson (1906), and Robert Venturi (1925). After him are Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Adrian Smith (1944), and Sixto Durán Ballén (1921).

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