Irregular volumes in a regular square in Berlin

The shoah monument, Eisenman, Berlin 2005

In a big area located between the Behrenstrasse and Ebertstraße (near the Brandenburg Gate) is located, according to a strict orthogonal grid of 2,711 concrete stele of a special variable height between 20 cm and more than 4 m, which gives the visitors the idea of a huge campaign shaped by the wind. Absolutely no names and symbolic meanings, hinting to the Jewish tradition, the place wants to be, the idea of the architect, a space in which the individual is alone with himself and his mind in order to make way for the memory . For a generic evocative function of the complex, suggested to those along the paths, was accompanied by concrete proof of historical documents on display in an underground information center. The repetition of shape and extension of the memorial evokes the founding principle of the tragedies of the twentieth century: the reason that if it becomes madness put to the service projects and negative ideals, to invest in the lives and human history in a boundless vastness of events death.