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Reflections
continued World Trade Center continued from page 1 The attacks have moved the Islamic jihad to front and center. Our national psyche has been shaken (especially that part where we were Masters of the Universe). And so our reactions to the events have been ‘American’ in the best and worst sense. Many are angry and have demanded military action in retaliation for these horrific acts (80% of New York State residents according to a telephone poll taken during the last week of September). Most people were stunned and wondered how this could have happened to us. Thousands volunteered for the rescue and clean-up effort at the World Trade Center site; others donated money, blood, materials or fed exhausted workers. People reached out to one another at gatherings and prayer services, sometimes taking care to include Arab-Americans and Muslims. But, in several parts of the country, Sikh-Americans were beaten for simply wearing the same head gear as Osama bin Laden and company. How does the post-September 11 future relate to ADPSR? As an organization ded-icated to peace, the prospect of World War III, as Thomas Friedman has termed it, is profoundly disturbing. It is the first globalization war: a violent attack by those who feel left behind and by those who despise and fear modernity — a struggle not over territory but over culture and religion. Part of the contemplation of war is envisioning an ultimate peace. The divide between Islamic fanaticism and other faiths (including mainstream Islam) — between the lives of people in industrialized countries and the lives of those in developing nations — between societies where women have rights and those where women do not — is immense. Much of the the work ahead is to build bridges among cultures. Americans need to understand why we are often hated abroad; civil society must be nurtured throughout the world; and all citizens, especially women, must be respected. ADPSR shall continue to promote peace, environmental stewardship and socially responsible development. We shall work to reduce the bloated military budget — much of which is no longer of use in a war, as described by the administration, of covert operations. With your help and support, we will advance tolerance and understanding and seek to reduce revenge and anger. It is ironic and sad that Mohammed Atta, one of the fanatics who may have piloted a plane that hit the one of the Trade Center towers, had studied architecture and urban planning. If we are to understand September 11, we need to understand the journey of a man who, trained to plan, design and create, ended his life destroying thousands of human beings and their workplace. — Jane McGroarty Design MattersThe City Design Center at the University of Illinois is sponsoring: Design Matters Symposium: Best Practices in Affordable Housing on October 22 and 23, 2001 in Chicago. It will feature presentations by nationally and internationally renowned devel-opers, architects, representatives of government agencies and housing researchers. Among the featured speakers are Henk Döll of The Netherlands, Michael Pyatok of Oakland, CA, Stacey Davis, CEO of Fannie Mae Foundation and Joseph Riley, the Mayor of Charleston, SC. ADPSR Board member, Tom Forman, will present an adap-tive reuse project, the Howard Theater. The symposium will launch the first Internet cata-log of outstanding affordable housing design in the United States. Co-sponsors for the symposium include the American Planning Association, AIA Chicago and ADPSR. For more information: www.affordablehousing.aa.uic.edu or contact the City Design Center: e-mail: cdesign@uic.edu fax: 312-996-2076 |
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ADPSR/NY Board of Advisors
Edward L. Barnes, FAIA Paul Broches, FAIA John H. Burgee, FAIA Denise Scott Brown, ARIBA Giorgio Cavaglieri, FAIA Lo-Yi Chan, FAIA Ivan Chermayeff Patricia Conway Lewis Davis, FAIA Bruce Fowle, FAIA Ulrich Franzen, FAIA James Ingo Freed, FAIA M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA Romaldo Giurgola, FAIA Milton Glaser Michael Graves, FAIA Nancye Green Charles Gwathmey, FAIA Richard Hayden, FAIA A. Eugene Kohn, FAIA, RIBA Peter Marcuse, ACIP Ian McHarg Richard Meier, FAIA Julian Neski, FAIA James Stewart Polshek, FAIA Kevin Roche, FAIA Arthur Rosenblatt, FAIA Arnold Saks Peter Samton, FAIA Terry Schnadelbach Susana Torre Robert Venturi, FAIA Massimo Vignelli ADPSR/NY Board of Directors Zachary Barowitz Boris K. Bogen, ACIP Glenn Garrison, AIA Charles Griffith, AIA Deborah Lombard Jane McGroarty, RA Jim Morgan Herbert Oppenheimer, FAIA Leslie Robertson, FASCE Arthur Rosenblatt, FAIA Tony Schuman Mauri Tamarin, AIA Troy West STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
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