Last year I was on an architecture tour of the Wayne State University campus in Detroit, MI. Part of the tour focused on the buildings that were designed by Minoru Yamasaki. He designed four buildings for the campus between 1957 and 1964. My previous experience with Yamasaki’s work was from my college days at College for Creative Studies in Detroit where I received a BFA focusing in crafts. The building that the crafts department resided in was designed by Yamasaki around the same time frame of the Wayne State buildings. The four years that I had spent learning and growing in his building had already given me an emotional connection to his work.
