Eleven years ago I made a modest proposal to create a series of three massively flat and empty superblocks (two in New York and one in Washington DC). I last showed these proposals as three large architectural site models, just six months before September 11th attacks. Because my proposals seemed to foreshadow the 16 acre gap left in Manhattan’s grid, I was urged to revisit the project. — rhizome.org
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A nice read that puts architecture in context with the movements that are happening both in the US and abroad.
I hope people realize how asinine and jingoistic it is to take a number that's symbolic exclusively to Americans and apply it as a message of "freedom" in a country we've been at odds with for decades... all to celebrate a massacre that China refuses to even acknowledge.
And it's a mystery why the rest of the world views us as a bunch of poorly-educated imperialists.
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