Holocaust Memorial Berlin: Eisenman Architects

by Hélène Binet

Inescapably controversial, its very existence challenged by German intellectuals like G?nter Grass, the Holocaust Memorial Berlin (or, as it's formally known, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) is now finished, some 16 years after it was first proposed. Architect Peter Eisenman's design, which filled a four-football-field-size parcel of land in the middle of Berlin with more than 2,700 concrete slabs, or stelae, was itself hotly debated,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3037780568
• ISBN13: 9783037780565
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.5" x 11.7"