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Ironically, while his son watched the
destruction of the towers in person,
Schreier didn't see any of the video until
9 p.m. Tuesday — a full 12 hours after
Detroit architect who
the first jetliner struck the building.
served as project manager
One reason -as
w that evening he was at a
for the design and construc-
funeral home paying his respects to a
tion of New York's World
former colleague at the firm.
Trade Center twin towers recalled
Two of Yamasaki's children were also
Wednesday that the landmark struc-
at
the funeral home.
ture was designed to withstand the
"They were both
impact of the crash of a 707 pas-
deeply pained," said
senger aircraft into the building.
Schreier. "Although
"But no one could have fore-
they had been young-
seen the total destruction of
sters at the time of the
both towers after direct hits by
design and construc-
much heavier Boeing 767s," said
tion of the towers,
Aaron Schreier of Beverly Hills,
they had been touched
a former vice president of
by their father's experi-
Minoru Yamasaki Associates of
ence in a collateral
Rochester Hills.
way,'' he said.
Yamasaki, who died in 1987,
Schreier served as
was the architect of the massive
in-house editor for
twin 110-story structures, in
Yamasaki's epochal
conjunction with New York-
Aar on Schreier
book, "A Life in
based Emory Roth.
Architecture,"
which
Schreier said one of the guide-
deals in-depth with the design of the
lines used by the architects was the
World Trade Center.
ability to withstand similar damage to
"I have a credit in the book, but not
that sustained by the Empire State
as an architect. His ego was pretty tied
Building after it was struck by an
up with it. He would share only with
American bomber during the closing
great embarrassment, only then
days of World War II.
acknowledging the contribution of peo-
The 70-year-old native Detroiter,
ple
who worked for him," said Schreier.
now senior architect for the Veterans
A
June 1948 Detroit Central High
Administration Medical Center in
School graduate, Schreier attended
Ann Arbor, believes the towers col-
Wayne State University. He studied
lapsed as a result of the jet fuel spewed
history for three years before deciding
from the aircraft.
upon a career in architecture. -While
"The planes were loaded with full
with Yamasaki's firm, which he left in
tanks of fuel, and each tower suffered.
1980 to open his own architectural
Once the fuel made it inside the
firm,
he was the "Jewish consultant"
buildings, it started burning the floors,
on Yamasaki's design of Temple Beth
which were highly vulnerable. The
high temperature of the jet fuel melted El in Bloomfield Township and served
as critic for the Hebrew inscriptions.
the floors, and the building started
In addition to son David, Schreier
pancaking," Schreier said.
and his wife Geraldine, a psychothera-
He said the fireball seen in video
pist, are the parents of Naomi, who
and photographs after the second jet-
lives in the Detroit area; Lisa, who
liner hit the towers was "the kiss of
lives in Washington, D.C. near the
death for the perimeter system."
flight path of the jetliner that struck
Schreier said his oldest son David, a
the Pentagon; and son Joel of Glencoe,
lawyer in New York, was in lower
Ill., an attorney, who works three
Manhattan Tuesday and saw the towers
blocks from the Sears Tower.
fall. "When he was a teenager and still
That landmark structure was evacuat-
at Groves High School, I made him go
ed in the aftermath of Tuesday's attacks.
up to the top of one tower in a rain-
Lisa's husband Judah Rose, an
storm. We had to climb the stairs and
AIPAC
activist, was in New York
then take a ladder to the roof. He never
Tuesday to deliver a speech.
forgot the experience," said Schreier.

ALAN ABRAN1S
Special to the Jewish News

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