ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the architecture of the Virginia plantation in the seventeenth century, which drew on Classical and Georgian idioms to manage a position of local hegemony while mollifying colonial authorities. While the more applied effects of that reflection are evident in many aspects of public policy, especially those involving militarization and securitization, much of the continuing significance of the event will have been effected in the design and construction of the new World Trade Center. Architecture served as the material target of the antagonists, and it materializes the subsequent processes of healing and remembrance. Adopting a radical strain of Talmudic textual practice, and articulating it through architectural design, Libeskind's Jewish community center and synagogue in Duisberg. Thomas Jefferson's departure in his design of Monticello from the architecture of the eighteenth-century planter's house constitutes a similar political disruption. The architecture of urban built environments and landscapes constitutes another locus of majority design versus minority re-inflection or resistance.
