http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/philip-vivian/ Philip Vivian is an architect and urban designer.  A Director of Bates Smart, his buildings have received numerous awards, most recently for the high-rise 420 George Street in Sydney.  In Brisbane he has designed a building that pending approval will be Australia’s tallest.  en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Symbols-of-dignity-and-humanity-long-before-911/ For the vast majority of people, images of the World Trade Centre in New York, and in particular its destruction, are permanently etched into their psyche.  While we understand a great deal about why the towers collapsed structurally, and the political motivations behind the attack, curiously very little is known about their architect and architecture. So who was the architect of New York’s World Trade Centre, and what did his building represent at the time it was built? feedback@thepunch.com.au (Philip Vivian) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Symbols-of-dignity-and-humanity-long-before-911/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Symbols-of-dignity-and-humanity-long-before-911/#item6688 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:35:20 +0000 Philip Vivian | Author bios | The Punch