”In this monument there is no goal, no end, no working one’s way in or out. The duration of an individual’s experience of it grants no further understanding, since understanding is impossible…”
Peter Eisenman in his Essay ‘Holocaust Memorial, Berlin’, read in his presentation of the memorial.
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"Today an individual can no longer be certain to die an individual death, and architecture can no longer remember life as it once did. The markers that were formerly symbols of individual life and death must be changed, and this has a profound effect on the idea of both memory and the monument. The enormity and horror of the Holocaust are such that any attempt to represent it by traditional means is inevitably inadequate. The memory of the Holocaust can never be a nostalgia."
Peter Eisenman in his Essay ‘Holocaust Memorial, Berlin’, read in his presentation of the memorial.
