Peter Eisenman wants people to experience the memorial he designed as a holy place.

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Elle Kidd

11 April, 08:03

Peter Eisenman wants people to experience the memorial he designed as a holy place.

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Lamont Collins · Answer 1

It's false. He built that memorial to honor the Jews that died (or were murder, I should say) in the Holocaust.

Denise Hanson · Answer 2

Peter Eisenman wants people to experience the memorial he designed as a holy place.

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Explanation:

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located in Berlin and designed by architect Peter Eisenman consists of a grid of 2711 concrete slabs located on an inclined field. According to the architect's project text, the memorial was designed to represent how a rational or ordered system can grow too large and out of proportion that it loses touch with human reason, and that "all closed systems of a closed order are bound to fail". His intention was to create a monument that conveys the idea of a living memory, where the past is active in the present, without nostalgia, or memory of the past, since understanding the experience is impossible; only the living memory of the individual experience. So, it's not to be regarded as a holy place, but as a place where the past manifests itself in the present.