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Minoru Yamasaki was born December 1,1912 in Seattle, Washington and died February 6, 1986. He was an American architect most famous for his controversial building, the World Trade Center (built in New York City, New York.) Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects pushing forward improvements in architecture during the 21 st century, and defined an era of New Formalism along with his partner Edward Durrell Stone; a style of architecture making use of classical columns and symmetrical elements, and combining them with ornate materials and concrete to form shapes such as umbrella shells, waffle slabs, and folded plates. The son of John Tsunejiro Yamasaki and Hana Yamasaki, Minoru Yamasaki attended High school in Seattle graduating, and enrolling in the University of Washington’s program in architecture in 1929. He graduated with a Bachelor in Architecture. He enrolled at the New York university for his master’s and graduated. He worked at the firm Shreve, Lamb, and ...

Le Petit Trianon is a small manor that was created by Ange-Jacques seventeen sixty-two and finished in seventeen sixty-eight. It was originally commissioned by Louis XV of France. It is a small chateau inside of the Grand Trianon, located in the palace of Versailles grounds. The Petit Trianon is also built on the site of a botanical garden. The garden was originally meant for Madame de Pompadour, but due to her untimely death four years before completion it was given to Madame du Barry.  Marie Antoinette then became queen, Louis XV sanctioned it for her use only, creating a destination where the nineteen-year-old queen could hide away from the stress of Royalty. The Petit Trianon was the first example of Rococo style which blended in many aspects of baroque architecture which then led to the more latent style of neo classicism. The manor showed itself as a miniature flat building (a simple cube shape) with a low parapet, however once approaching and entering the interior proves ...

           A phalanstere was a design created in the nineteenth century by Charles Fourier, through the inspiration he found from the palace of Versilles. In eighteen thirty-two the newspaper, Fourierist, proposed the launch of a fundraiser to create La Phalange.   He envisioned the structure as a U-shaped building with wings on either side of the large structure. This was meant to become a self-contained utopian building that would house 500-2000 people who would work together and benefit each other perfectly.  Fourier was a French socialist who wanted to develop an architectural system based off of principles of sexual liberation, co-operative organization, women’s liberation, and human interaction. He was not a fan of industrialization or the free market at the time, since he believed they led to the destruction of the modern world through the oppression of its people. He believed that in his society everyone would work equally fo...