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Eric Darton

Eric Darton is the author of Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York’s World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999).

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The Janus face of architectural terrorism: Minoru Yamasaki, Mohammad Atta and the World Trade Center

Two years ago, a study of the World Trade Center argued that the ideas embodied in the twin towers’ creation – immense, highly abstract, and distanced from the experience of ordinary life – were shared by the terrorists who tried to destroy them. After 11 September, a detailed comparison between the WTC’s chief architect and the head of the suicide hijackers provides further chilling evidence of these connective ‘daydreams of domination’.