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Rendering of Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland
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Hecker’s design for the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews (Polin) proposed a complex of two buildings: one a rectangular concrete block and the other a lighter metal and glass structure. The…

Contributor:

Zvi Hecker

Places:

Warsaw, Poland

Date:

2005

Subjects:

Cities, Memorial, Jewish quarters, Ecology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
3-D rendering of lit-up buildings.
Jordan Valley Memorial Monument
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Like other sculptures created by Yigael Tumarkin, the Jordan Valley Memorial Monument, erected to commemorate hundreds of Israeli soldiers who died fighting terrorists in the years immediately…

Contributor:

Yigael Tumarkin

Places:

Jordan Valley, Israel

Date:

1972

Subjects:

Memory, Memorial, Cities, Violence, Military

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture, Architecture
Cement and steel monument resembling a large firearm in a white base next to a building, surrounded by sand dunes.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
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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…

Contributor:

James Ingo Freed

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Date:

1993

Subjects:

Art, Modernism, Holocaust, Memorial, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of brick building exterior with skywalks over a smaller building below with a metal and glass roof and a tall monolith in the background.