Posted by Manuel Oliveros on September 23, 2001 at 13:17:50:In Reply to: Re: WTC Collapse posted by John A. Giambalvo on September 23, 2001 at 11:32:40:
So the problem stays in gaining proper rulers. But already an italian filmmaker put in a comical film very clear the major of the city in Italy saying "yes true, of course I am corrupt, that's what they want, otherwise they would have elected a just one!".
The problem is with the systems. This is no american problem, is worldwide problem. It is good to see people vying for more safety, yet it is clear these people or their equivalent were not at the helm when the decision of making WTC was made. What can an architect or an engineer say and do, less force, when the legal and technical consensus under the approving sight of the commissioner is that some particular design is correct and the wanted one? Furthermore his own criterium about safety may be in agreement with that the owner.
Since the matter of codification is or should be a matter of numbers, i.e., should pertain mainly to the scientific realm, and it is clear that the exercise of architecture is regulated, if the public wants more safety (and this goes as well for social peace) they must care first of installing the policies that are in accord with the wished status of safety. Then they need to install just policies that place those more able at the helm, and you can swear I am not seeing this, and have read complaints about that in written treaties on architecture of the XVII century.
What we are dealing is as much with human behaviour as than with buildings. I invariably see (last week one here) when the rains come one building falls...but was in rehabilitation! Who was in charge? I mean, the failure of the WTC as of those buildings, has as well to do with some additional activity by humans, and as social members the way to put a halt on this pass through selecting proper procedures, and able and willing men to perform them.
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