Retouching the void The WTC memorials impossible Compromises. Public space and nonverbal communication.

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I just read an excellent article in Harpers Magazine. MarkKingwell a professor o f philosophy at the University of Toronto talks aboutthe effects of public space and interviews the architect of the World TradeCenter Memorial.

The architect waxes profound about what he wanted to achievewith the controversial memorial. It is what he said about its meaning when askedby a security guard at the site that expressed it the best. “Well, I wanted tocreate a voiced—Two cascading voids.”  How interesting he should say that. I think that is what 9/11 gave us. How simple a memorial. Something thatdoesn’t rise up to celebrate but instead recedes with tears of grief into avoid.

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