Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust

by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

The first major study to examine the rise to prominence of Jewish architects since 1945 and the connection of their work to the legacy of the Holocaust

Since the end of World War II, Jewish architects have risen to unprecedented international prominence. Whether as modernists, postmodernists, or deconstructivists, architects such as Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Louis I. Kahn, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Moshe Safdie, Robert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300169140
• ISBN13: 9780300169140
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.9" x 10.2"