you forgot the part where Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed
the World Trade Center, was a favourite architect of the Saudi royalty.
he had gone there and done a number of landmarks for them, learning
about islamic design principles, and when he came back to America, he fused them with le courbusier’s modernism to build the WTC:
thus the entire event can be viewed as a dialogue between yamasaki and his belief that islam and western capitalism could coexist together against atta’s belief that they could not
