Take a look at WTC’s new look

Lolita Harper

The Super Bowl has been an American tradition for 37 years, but in

the past couple years one topic has evoked even more passion: the

World Trade Center attacks.

On Sunday, both will be on display in the city as the Orange

County Museum of Art hosts a lecture by New York Gallery owner Max

Protech about the future of the World Trade Center site, from a wide

variety of inventive view points. Protech, who wrote “A New World

Trade Center,” documented an exhibition showcasing design proposals

from some of the world’s top architects.

Brian Langston, spokesman for the Orange County Museum of Art,

said he is thrilled to host a lecturer such as Protech. Newport-Mesa

residents are in for an extremely inspired and innovative

presentation, he said.

“He brought in a wide variety of artists to weigh in on what might

be done at that sight and opened it up to another level of

creativity,” Langston said. “Some of the designs are wild and crazy,

and that is the nature of creativity.”

Protech, who specializes in architectural drawings and represents

some of the industry’s strongest minds, was inspired to create this

project after the East Coast attacks. His project includes some very

early design proposals that helped inspire crucial community dialogue

and spirit that has helped New Yorkers regain their footing, Langston

said.

The lecture will not only address Protech’s project but the

political issues that have surfaced around the rebuilding process at

Ground Zero.

People can conceivably catch the poignant lecture about curing

America’s scar and still get back in time to catch most of the

Oakland Raiders versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl,

Langston said.

“I would imagine there will be a slightly different demographic

than for the Super Bowl,” he joked.