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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Berlin, Berlin (state), Germanyen_US
dc.coverage.temporal2003-2004 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorEisenman, Peter D.en_US
dc.creatorBüro Happolden_US
dc.date2003-2004en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-16T18:36:53Z
dc.date.available2014-12-16T18:36:53Z
dc.date.issued2003-2004en_US
dc.identifier251282en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3034en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/166915
dc.descriptionGeneral view from Ebertstrasse, looking southeast; A memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineering firm Büro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 m2 (4.7-acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in) long, 0.95 m (3 ft 1 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m (7.9 in to 15 ft 9.0 in). According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. There were two separate competitions for the design. On June 25, 1999, a large majority of the Bundestag decided in favor of Eisenman's plan, modified by attaching an underground museum, or "place of information," designed by Berlin-based exhibition designer Dagmar von Wilcken; this holds names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem. The memorial was dedicated on May 10, 2005, as part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day and opened to the public two days later. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 6/19/2014)en_US
dc.format.mediumcast concreteen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectdeath or burialen_US
dc.subjectfunerary arten_US
dc.subjecthistoricalen_US
dc.subjectmilitary or waren_US
dc.subjectnonrepresentational arten_US
dc.subjectHolocausten_US
dc.subjectWorld War, 1939-1945en_US
dc.subjectTwenty-first centuryen_US
dc.titleMemorial to the Murdered Jews of Europeen_US
dc.title.alternativeDenkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europasen_US
dc.title.alternativeHolocaust Memorialen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-EISP-MMJE-A03en_US
vra.culturalContextGermanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling), casting (process)en_US
vra.worktypemonumenten_US
vra.worktypeenvironmental arten_US
vra.worktypeinstallation (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayBüro Happold (British structural engineering firm, founded 1977); Peter D. Eisenman (American architect, born 1932)en_US


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