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Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912 - February 6, 1986) was an American architect, born in Seattle, Washington, a second-generation Japanese-American. A prolific architect, he is best known for his design of the the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
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at Oberlin College, designed by Yamasaki in 1963. The distinctive style is similar to Yamasaki's design of the World Trade Center]]
Despite a poor background, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington; he earned money to pay for his tuition by working at an Alaskan salmon cannery when not attending classes. After moving to New York City in the 1930s, he enrolled at New York University for a master's degree in architecture and got a job with the architecture firm Shreve, Lamb and Hermon, designers of the Empire State Building.
His first significant project was the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, Missouri, 1955. Despite his love of Japanese traditional design, this was a stark, modernist concrete structure. It was so unpopular that it was demolished in 1972. He also designed several "sleek" international airport buildings and was responsible for the innovative design of the 1,360 ft (415 m) towers of the World Trade Center, for which design began in 1965, and construction in 1972.
For years, the destruction of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project was considered to be the beginning of postmodern architecture.
He was first married in 1941 and had two other wives before marrying his first wife again in 1969. Yamasaki died of cancer at the age of 73.
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