Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture (Paperback, 1)

Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Rethinking Yamasaki Yamasaki Known and Unknown The Fate of a Style The Fragility of Architecture Course of the Study 2.The Fragility of Dreams Inspiration and Tribulation The Making of a Modernist Founding a Practice Success and Its Costs The Long Shot The Persistence of Culture 3.The Fragility of the City Design on Trial High-Risers and Low-Risers Looking Beyond Design A Hard Legacy 4.The Most Fragile of Arts The Flower and the Deer The Experiential Dimension The Devil in the Details The Architecture of Humanism 5. The Presence of the Past Japanese Heritage Islamic Legacies Venetian Synthesis Classical Transformations "The New Formalism" 6. The Moral Imperative Ethics and Ethos Ethics in Practice The Ethos of Modern Architecture Expressing Structure Strength as Symbol The Question Reconsidered 7.Populism and Democratic Culture Symbolizing the State Imagining the Academy Serving the Market Populism and Manufactured Culture Serious Play 8.Greatness and Vulnerability Saint Louis Sequel The Calamity Wager Scale and Concentration City in the Sky The Scale of Tragedy Greatness and Bigness 9.The Ambiguity of Symbols The Nature of Symbol The Sacred and the Mundane The World Trade Center as Symbol Rebuilding and Not Rebuilding 10.Postmodern Postludes The Day Modern Architecture Died Postmodern Theory Ironic Historicism Postmodern Violence and Anti-Violence 11. The Question of Preservation Historical Grounds for Preservation Grounds in Artistic Merit The Presence of Yamasaki Photo Credits Index