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  • From: Jim Allman <jim AT ibang.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Wright's '57 Plan for Baghdad (pictures!)
  • Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:57:31 -0400

Here's a web shrine to Wright, with pictures of his Iraq designs:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flw_iraq.html

Some of it strikes me as too theatrical, a kind of Disney treatment that would likely backfire. But the rest looks pretty refined, drawing from Islamic and regional forms but with modern materials.

Another, more modernist architect whose work reflects Islamic and Moorish tradition is Minoru Yamasaki, who designed... wait for it... the World Trade Center. Here are two articles that show more of his work, and discuss how it's possible that the WTC was seen as an affront to Islam:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2060207/

http://www.metropolismag.com/html/wtc/wtc_gardner_03072002.html

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Jim Allman
Interrobang Digital Media
http://www.ibang.com/
(919) 649-5760





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