Who's afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don't know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change (ed. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2008) - ISBN: 9780802717078