04/2003 | Convention to Explore “The World Trade Center Site—Design Matters!” |
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The AIA 2003 National Convention and Expo offers theme presentations that will provide an opportunity to hear new perspectives, informed opinions, and inspiring visions from industry leaders and entrepreneurial innovators about this year’s theme, “Design Matters! Poetry + Proof.” Rarely in the history of architecture has the development of a site held the sustained interest of the global community. The horrific devastation of September 11, 2001, in Lower Manhattan began a chain of events that has ultimately presented the design and building community with perhaps its greatest challenge. How do we transform the World Trade Center site—a place of so much death and destruction—into a space that acknowledges that loss while affirming life? After September 11, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation was formed and, together with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, began the journey to develop a master plan for the World Trade Center site. Ultimately, “Memory Foundations” by Studio Daniel Libeskind was selected as the design concept. On Saturday, May 10 (day three), Robert Ivy, FAIA, Architectural
Record editor in chief, will lead a panel discussion with Daniel
Libeskind; The New Yorker architecture
critic Paul Goldberger, Hon. AIA; Frances Halsband, FAIA, the AIA New
York Chapter past president; and Stanton Eckstut, FAIA, advisor to the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Discussion about the many issues
surrounding the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and the challenges
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