WTC Forum
On February 1st and February 2nd The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University held a forum on the destruction of the World Trade Center and its urban implications. Panels examined topics such as the World Trade Center and the meaning of "tallest" buildings, infrastructure and ecology, real estate and financial issues, programs for the site and lower Manhattan, trauma and memory, spectacle and image, etc.
Speakers included architects, engineers, planners, psychologists, sociologists, ecologists, and geographers, as well as individuals from the real estate and financial community. Participants included Janet Abu-Lughod, Charles Bagli, Benjamin R. Barber, Marshall Berman, Liz Diller, Mindy Fullilove, Ray Gastil, David Harvey, Andreas Huyssen, Richard Muller, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Saskia Sassen, David Stark, Robert A.M. Stern, Marilyn Taylor, Bernard Tschumi and Carl Weisbrod.
The entire two-day forum was re-broadcast live via the web at www.arch.columbia.edu. To access and view video footage of the forum events, visit
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/gsap/3798. You will need to have the most recent Quicktime plugin installed on your PC or Macintosh to view the videos. To download the Quicktime plugin visit
http://www.quicktime.com.
