Itinerant Architecture: Global Politics and World Building in the Work of Minoru Yamasaki and Associates, 1951-86

modern architecture;postwar America;Minoru Yamasaki;itinerancy;globalism;Architecture;Arts;Architecture

Kiely IV, JohnVelikov, Kathy ;

University of Michigan

关键词: modern architecture;    postwar America;    Minoru Yamasaki;    itinerancy;    globalism;    Architecture;    Arts;    Architecture;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

The office of Minoru Yamasaki and Associates (MYA) was an important actor in twentieth century American architectural production, yet Yamasaki himself appears as an ambiguous figure in postwar architecture. Until recently, practicing architects and historians alike have largely overlooked MYA’s many contributions, dismissing them as overly corporate or without significant formal innovation. At the same time, Yamasaki’s status as a Japanese-American growing up during WWII has been largely overlooked. Reconsidering MYA’s projects through the thematic lens of itinerancy and displacement, the dissertation explores connections between architecture and Cold War diplomacy, international travel, and global economic development. Over the course of four chapters, I examine the firm’s designs for airports, hotels, apartment, and governmental buildings as emblematic of global capitalism—but also as constitutive of new forms of global political and economic relations. Each building-centered case study discloses important partnerships constituted among architects, city planners, developers, private corporations, and foreign governments that influenced the production of American-designed buildings on a range of global sites. Looking beyond the World Trade Center and the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project, the dissertation reveals how MYA constructed postwar America in a global setting—at home and abroad—even as the figure of Yamasaki himself ambiguously reflects the costs of U.S. hegemony.