Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture
Paul Kidder
Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture
Paul Kidder
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Description
Beautifully illustrated with over 100 colour illustrations of Yamasaki’s buildings, this book will be of interest to students, academics and professionals in a range of disciplines, including architectural history, architectural theory, architectural preservation, and urban design and planning.
"Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture by Paul Kidder is an excellent, thoughtful survey of the difficulties of placing Yamasaki in the pantheon of modern and postmodern architects." – Knute Berger, Crosscut.com
Excerpt from https://crosscut.com/culture/2021/09/remembering-seattle-architect-who-built-world-trade-center
Paul Kidder, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University, where he has taught courses on the history of philosophy, existentialism, philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of art and architecture, and ethics in urban affairs. He is the author of Gadamer for Architects (2012), published by Routledge.