Architects Need To Rethink Building Design

MIT faculty agree that the terrorists understood the structural weekness of the WTC buildings and exploited it.

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September 28, 2001, 11:00 AM PDT

MIT's Technology Journal asks: "How much structural-engineering knowledge would the terrorists have needed to predict and deliberately bring about such a catastrophic failure? Most important, what can be done in the future to protect tall buildings and their inhabitants against a brand of violence that--until recently--most people considered unimaginable?" The Journal also notes that Osama bin Laden earned a degree in civil engineering from King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1979.

Thanks to Chris Steins

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