I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

During his college years he was strongly encouraged by faculty member Lionel Pries. "


Biography
Yamasaki was born in Seattle Washington a second-generation Japanese American son of John Tsunejiro Yamasaki and Hana Yamasaki. Notably Yamasaki designed the Temple Beth El Congregation Synagogue located outside Detroit in Bloomfield Hills MI.

Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. Minoru Yamasaki (December 1 1912 – February 7 1986) was an American architect best known for his design of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2. ".