“[The memorial is] not about Japanese culture in any way,” she said, “This is about an American historical event.” According to Johnpaul Jones and Colleen Thorpe, two architects who ...

His designs defied traditional architecture — just as Minoru defied discrimination. "To be Japanese American at the time he was alive was not an easy thing. He was born in 1912. He wasn't ...

But if you go to architecture schools around the country ... especially in the context that he grew up in as a Japanese American man in this country. How long have you wanted to tell the story ...

Many can tell by its original furniture, carpet and light-filled architecture that Seattle's Japanese American history lives in the details. The hotel had a lot of Japanese influence, as the ...

“It’s really important to me, and it means a lot,” said council member Darin Mano, a fourth-generation Japanese ... with GSBS Architects, developers with Ritchie Group, Asian American ...

It’s an ironic turn of events when we consider that Asian Americans were some of affirmative action’s very earliest architects ... sons and daughters of Japanese immigrants who came of ...

The Issei pioneers were naturalized as American citizens in 1954 ... will combine Japanese and ranch-style architecture. The lobby will feature an art piece, and the center will feature ...

“That was three years of pure hell,” said Ochi, a third-generation Japanese American, or Sansei, who is president of the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego. Kay Ochi, president ...