Architecture of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

From our free online course, “The Architectural Imagination”: https://www.edx.org/course/architectural-imagination-harvardx-gsd1x?utm_source=social&utm_medium=partner-marketing&utm_content=youtube-harvardx&utm_campaign=harvardx Harvard Professor K. Michael Hays examines a work so minimal that some might not think of it as architecture at all; and yet, the project is tasked with the demand to carry the memory of perhaps the most profound of all human traumas. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe designed by architect Peter Eisenman is a project that uses the very abstraction and materiality that is inherent to the medium of architecture. This becomes the device with which to raise questions of architecture's power of representation rather than answer them. — Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKJyv_uNh3LhYFKmwaB63bA?sub_confirmation=1 — Sign up for emails about new courses: https://harvardx.link/email — HarvardX courses on edX: https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx — Harvard University's online courses: https://online-learning.harvard.edu/ HarvardX empowers the faculty of Harvard University to create high-quality online courses in subjects ranging from computer science to history, education, and religion.