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Minoru Yamasaki

1912 - 1986

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Minoru Yamasaki (山崎 實, Yamasaki Minoru, December 1, 1912 – February 6, 1986) was a Japanese-American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of "New Formalism".During his three-decade career, he and his firm designed over 250 buildings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Minoru Yamasaki has received more than 1,284,309 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Minoru Yamasaki is the 94th most popular architect (down from 67th in 2019), the 1,070th most popular biography from United States (down from 815th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Architect.

Minoru Yamasaki is most famous for his design of the World Trade Center in New York City.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Minoru Yamasakis by language

Over the past year Minoru Yamasaki has had the most page views in the with 201,500 views, followed by Japanese (38,054), and Spanish (24,973). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (219.42%), Kirghiz (152.05%), and Estonian (84.87%)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 94 out of 518. Before him are Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Sostratus of Cnidus, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, and Mnesikles. After him are Arata Isozaki, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, and Étienne-Louis Boullée.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 49. Before him are Jozef Gabčík, Otto Ernst Remer, George Emil Palade, Julius Axelrod, Otto Kretschmer, and Ghazi of Iraq. After him are Patrick White, Lev Gumilyov, Sonja Henie, Gordon Parks, Cornel Wilde, and Don Siegel. Among people deceased in 1986, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 37. Before him are Georges Dumézil, Chiune Sugihara, Benny Goodman, Lê Duẩn, L. Ron Hubbard, and Otto Preminger. After him are Dean Reed, Coluche, James Cagney, Ye Jianying, Robert S. Mulliken, and Erik Bruhn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 1,070 out of 20,380. Before him are Peggy Guggenheim (1898), L. Frank Baum (1856), Russell Alan Hulse (1950), Philip Zimbardo (1933), Jack Kemp (1935), and Virginia Satir (1916). After him are Joel Schumacher (1939), Dred Scott (1795), Hilary Putnam (1926), Michelle Phillips (1944), Steve Carell (1962), and Brian Dennehy (1938).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Minoru Yamasaki ranks 6. Before him are Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Louis Sullivan (1856), Richard Meier (1934), Buckminster Fuller (1895), and Robert Venturi (1925). After him are Philip Johnson (1906), Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), Adrian Smith (1944), and Nicholas Negroponte (1943).

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