Yamasaki's Regret

The following is an excerpt from Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World (Yale University Press):

By the late 1970s, Minoru Yamasaki had fallen out of the limelight. None of his foreign designs would be published in American architecture journals. A review of his firm’s project list reveals that in Yamasaki’s last years, nearly a quarter of Minoru Yamasaki Associate’s (MYA) commissions were from three locations: Hawaii, Seattle, and his home of Troy, Michigan. The few buildings that eventually were constructed in these places were difficult to distinguish as Yamasaki’s, indicating his diminishing role in the design process. MYA’s work gradually lost the distinctive personality that characterized its best buildings of the 1950s and ‘60s.