Yad Vashem

by Safdie, Moshe

• ISBN13: 9783037780701
• ISBN10: 3037780703
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers

Summary

175 meters long, the museum bores like a triangular beam through the Har Hazikaron, or Mount of Remembrance. It juts out from the hillside at either end, allowing visitors to enter and look out. This spectacular architecture is the setting for a lavish and impressive exhibition commemorating the Holocaust. The structure is the culmination of Moshe Safdiea??s work in Israel. The architect, a student of Louis Kahn who began his career with the sensational residential complex Habitat at the 1967 Montreal Worlda??s Fair, maintains offices in Boston, Toronto, and Jerusalem. The museum, its architecture, and its series of interior spaces with their carefully designed exhibition facilities are documented in an indepth photo essay and illustrated with texts and plans.

Table of Contents

A place in the world for a world displaced

Building a holocaust museum in Jerusalem

The mount of remembrance

The architecture of memory

Remembering

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