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...while the Manhattan firm of Emery Roth & Sons - an office noted more for its concern for costs than for producing beauty - will turn out the working drawings. If Yamasaki can keep a firm control of the job, it will be one of the greatest opportunities ever presented to an architect, "an opportunity," says Yamasaki, ''for new methods, new systems, new building ideas." What form the project may be taking in Yamasaki's inventive mind is his secret, but simple arithmetic shows that the vast space needs and limited site could force him to record heights or bulk...
...drawings in his room, he found himself with an avid fan. Ito, who now lives and practices his profession in Tokyo, still remembers the silent boy solemnly watching as the drawing progressed. Yamasaki remembers too. "The more my uncle talked about architecture, the more I wanted to become an architect." To save up money for schooling, Yamasaki spent five wretched summers working in Alaskan fish canneries. The pay was $50 a month; the work week was 66 hours; the pay for an hour's overtime was 25?. "And there was plenty of over time," Yamasaki recalls. "During busy periods...
...mind the overcrowding, but he has not forgotten the resettling. "Our people had to sell everything for 10? to 15? on the dollar. The people who bought their businesses and houses knew they had them over a barrel." Up From Eyeshades. As the years passed, Yamasaki worked for Architect Wallace Harrison and later for Designer Raymond Loewy. In 1945, the large (600 employees) Detroit firm of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls hired him to be its chief designer. He was at first appalled by the fusty look of the dark-walled offices : "The men wore eyeshades, and there were spittoons...
...down the middle with the glass gallery, says Yale's Art History Professor Vincent Scully Jr., Yamasaki has produced "a twittering aviary." "Just where you want strength," says Philip Johnson, "it isn't there." Snorts Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: "Yamasaki's as much an architect as I am Napoleon. He was an architect, but now he's nothing but a decorator. Sure, people are getting bored with the glass box - I am too. But now there's this clique that says, 'Let's build a beautiful building,' and there...
...their former customers, Florida's Maule Industries, whose cement products have gone into most of the Miami Beach hotels. In their home town of Ponce, the brothers have put up $1,000,000 for a new university. And Luis Ferré, a passionate art collector, recently engaged Architect Edward D. Stone to design a new home for Puerto Rico's solitary -and Ferré-financed-art museum...