Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture

World Trade Center / Minoru Yamasaki Associates + Emery Roth & Sons. Image © Wikipedia CommonsHis work – more than 250 buildings in the span of 30 years – was lauded by critics and colleagues, cited for international design awards, and landed the architect on the cover of Time. But today, even practitioners and aficionados might be challenged to name one of Minoru Yamasaki's buildings beyond his two most infamous creations that no longer exist: the Pruitt-Igoe housing projec