[M1911A1]

From a design jury member:

"Last year, our second class of the fall season happened to have been scheduled for 9/11, and so, of course, did not happen. The semester was foreshortened by the attacks on the World Trade Center. For a while the New School buildings served as staging areas for some emergency services. Several students came closer to the carnage than anyone should. Our academic world became more real as we talked about America's arrogant and profligate energy use, which was dramatically embedded in the twin towers, now turned to one big toxic pile of dust. The rubble was burning not far from where we sat. those who will give forms to our physical environment-my twenty-eight hopes for the future of a new design ethic-had a hard time ignoring this fact of their lives. The collapse shows, among other things, that our current American lifestyle is unsustainable."



http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=149

[Prime Choice]

Quoting from the design jury member:

The collapse shows, among other things, that our current American lifestyle is unsustainable.

So long as we keep putting up with defeatists like that idiot, that statement will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[Windcatcher]

"From a design jury member:
(snip)

Oh. My. God. Someone get me a barf bag.

[spunkets]

toxic pile of dust."

There's that word toxic again. I think the dope he/she is on is toxic and destroyed her brain.

" The collapse shows, among other things, that our current American lifestyle is unsustainable."

Or, maybe the public schools simply suck.