Minoru Yamasaki Quotes

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.

Minoru Yamasaki

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  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Important
  • Building
  • Civilization