Thursday, September 19, 2002
The fix for WTC is harder than making another box. In "Mourning and Modernism After 9/11, Can Function Follow Form?" Casey Nelson Blake in The Nation, September 23, 2002, describes ways last summer's proposals failed because the Port Authority commission's 11 million square foot program was unworkable, and the idea of a "modern" skyscraper is thirty years outdated anyway.