The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin by Peter Eisenman is finished and The New York Times has a good article up about it (funny, Richard Serra, an early collaborator and obvious influence, is not mentioned…).

It is a project that I have been following since it was first announced and it is the project that I most blatantly copied while I was still studying. It is a return to form for Eisenman with more in common with his early houses than his more recent larger commissions. ie. it is spacialy challenging, uncomfortable and ambiguous. It is not the colour of tasty upriver swimming fish, nor does it succumb to the succulent succour of current fads.

Some Flickr photos: here and here.


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