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The Jenga Effect

A new vogue for tottering towers.

By |Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at 7:05 AM ET

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic His latest book is The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Visit his Web site. Follow him on Twitter.