Memory and Mourning in Berlin: on Peter Eisenman's Holocaust-Mahnmal (2005)
In the heart of Berlin, on what was once the Ministergärten, now stands a memorial so gigantic and abstract that it demands not simply notice but also interpretation as metaphor, especially because it lacks signage. The work, by American-Jewish architect Peter Eisenman, was commissioned to commemora...
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