BLOODMOSES

spent all morning looking for the pic where someone is doing an absurdly bad job at the forced perspective "i'm holding the setting sun in my hand" shot. and the caption is smth like "a new day begins.... but why?"

I have this ?

"just go to a food pantry"

i would strongly disagree with that. Yes, he designed one of the most famous building ever in the international style, the world trade center, but that wasn't until well into the development and adoption of the style across the architectural world. If anything, the main motif of his career is his arches, and he used them liberally at a time when the arch was well fallen out of favor specifically because of modernist styles like the international style that were obsessed with the advantages of the kind of squared off shapes that could be achieved with steel beams, with the architectural world moving away from more traditional arches. He did a lot of really cool and interesting things with them. it's why the bottom of the WTC looked like that. The man loved an arch.

oh, for reference: