Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas

Glimpses of Peter Eisenman's 2004 Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe or Holocaust Memorial) when I visited Berlin this past summer:

House VI

Drawings of Peter Eisenman's 1975 House VI at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York 2013:

Axis of remembrance*

I am leaving Berlin for Hamburg this afternoon.  I'll finish my Berlin chapter on a more sombre note.  I visited Daniel Libeskind's Jüdisches Museum (Jewish Museum) yesterday and Peter Eisenman's Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe or Holocaust Memorial) this morning.

Libeskind's 2001 Jüdisches Museum, Berlin:

Eisenman's 2005 Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Berlin:

It was a grey day when I trod the wavering ground of the memorial this morning.

* Axis of Exile, Axis of Holocaust and Axis of Continuation are the three major axes in the design of Jüdisches Museum

Architectural

Architectural drawings have always been one of my sources of inspiration, especially conceptual drawings like Peter Eisenman's 1975 House VI:

Image from http://www.moma.org/

Zaha Hadid's 1983 the Peak:

Image from http://www.zaha-hadid.com/