dancing with architecture in texarkana, texas-arkansas (and fouke, arkansas)

 

memorial to the murdered jews of europe (berlin)

 

 

Peter Eisenman designed this Holocaust memorial in Berlin with 2,711 concrete pillars of varying height across 200,000 square feet in downtown Berlin. An underground bunker holds the names of the about three million killed during World War II by Nazi Germany.  Dedicated in 2005, it has not aged well, primarily with what appears to be poor foundation materials since parts of the memorial are tiled helter-skelter and many of the pillars are being redone.

As a fan of cubism and Brutalism, I liked the display, but the impersonality of the installation results in many people not understanding what it is about. On the other hand, maybe that's what this display is about: some know what's "happening" with the exhibit while others have no idea or no curiosity to know more, kinda like the Holocaust at the time it happened.