Minoru Yamasaki Quotes
The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.
Yamasaki, Minoru. "Oral history interview with Minoru Yamasaki, 1959 August." Interview by John D. Morse. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Aug. 1959.
Hastings founded a colony in Brazil for Confederates who were unwilling to live in the South during Reconstruction. He was trying to raise recruits. His book was effusive in its description of Brazil—without mentioning the yellow fever, poisonous animals, sweltering jungles and some of the less desirable elements of Brazil.
Minoru Yamasaki 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".