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Freed deliberately designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a sense of disorientation and alienation, even terror, in keeping with the museum’s subject matter. Though it is not based on a…
The Linnaeusstraat synagogue was built in the expressionist style of the Amsterdam School, a movement that flourished from 1910 to about 1930, which favored brick construction and copious decoration…
Architect Ignaz Reiser won a contest to design this ceremonial hall for the New Jewish Cemetery in Vienna. Construction began there in 1926. The most prominent feature of the building was its dome, an…
This building, photographed by Liselotte Grschebina, is one of approximately four thousand Bauhaus-style buildings constructed in Tel Aviv, the most of any city in the world. The Nazi Party’s rise to…
The Aron Schuster Synagogue was built in the expressionist style of the Amsterdam School, a movement that flourished from 1910 to about 1930 and that favored brick construction and copious decoration…
Percival Goodman won the commission to design the building for Congregation B’nai Israel after speaking at a two-day symposium organized in 1947 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations to…
