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47 Cards in this Set
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Bauhaus Walter Gropius Dessau, Germany 1925 Significance: The glass curtain wall suspended in front of the load-bearing framework openly shows the constructive elements and lets in light. |
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House of German Art Paul Ludwig Troost Munich, Germany 1937 Significance: Epitomizes the neoclassical style revered by Hitler. Houses great german art as opposed to 'degenerate' art. |
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Fuhrer Building Paul Ludwig Troost Munich, Germany 1937 Significance: Epitomizes the neoclassical style revered by Hitler. Served as the representative building for the Fuhrer. |
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Honor Temple Paul Ludwig Troost Munich, Germany 1935 Significance: Holds the corpses of sixteen members of the Nazi party who had been killed in the failed Beer hall putsch. |
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Entrance to Zeppelin Field Albert Speer Nuremberg Germany 1930s Significance: Rally grounds, neoclassical, monumental in size |
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Model of Berlin Albert Speer 1937-1943 Significance: Renewal of the capital, carry out Hitler's vision of Berlin |
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Chancellory Building Albert Speer Berlin Germany 1938 Significance: Hitler's government building, neoclassical, destroyed in WWII |
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International Memorial Nandor Glid Dachau 1968 Significance: skeletons, barbed wire, former concentration camp site, bronze |
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Memorial for the Victims of the Death Marches Hubertus von Pilgrim Dachau, Germany 1960s Significance: Victims at the Dachau Concentration Camp were forced to march south in what came to be known as the death march. Individuals are represented. |
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The Jewish Museum Daniel Libeskind Berlin, Germany 1988-1999 Significance: Disjointed structure representative of the problematic relationship between the Jewish identity within Germany. |
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The Jewish Museum Daniel Libeskind Berlin, Germany 1988-1999 Significance: Disjointed structure representative of the problematic relationship between the Jewish identity within Germany. |
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Glass Courtyard Jewish Museum Daniel Libeskind Berlin, Germany 2007 Significance: Modern glass structure juxtaposed with baroque museum, dichotomy between past and present. |
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New Guard Karl Friedrich Schinkel Berlin, Germany 1818 Significance: Designedby the Nazis to commemorate the dead. Afterthe unification of Germany, Chancellor Cole wanted to make it a place tocommemorate all victims of war - controversial. |
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Memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe Peter Eisenman Berlin, Germany 1998
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Reichstag Normon Foster Berlin Germany 1992-1999 Significance: Glass dome - thinking about transparency,building without secrets Transparency in politics - Can look down into the chamber from thedome |
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The Museum of Jewish Art and History Catherine Bizouard, Francois Pin, and Loan Mai Paris, France 1993-2005 Significance: Not a holocaust museum, history of jewish culture. |
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Memorial to Fighting France Felix Bruneau Mont Valerien, France 1960 Significance: Commemorates members of the french armed forces, sixteen bronze reliefs that represent in allegorical terms the different phases, places and participants in the struggle. |
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Memorial to Fighting France Felix Bruneau Mont Valerien, France 1960 Significance: Commemorates members of the french armed forces, sixteen bronze reliefs that represent in allegorical terms the different phases, places and participants in the struggle. |
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Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation Gustave Pingusson Paris, France 1962 Significance: Memorial to the 200,000 people who were deported from Vichy France to the concentration camps. Hexagonal rotunda, two chapels containing earth and bones from concentration camps. |
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Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation Gustave Pingusson Paris, France 1962 Significance: The memorial's entrance is narrow, marked by two concrete blocks. Has a long and narrow subterranean space convey a feeling of claustrophobia. |
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Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation Gustave Pingusson Paris, France 1962 Significance: Memorial to the 200,000 people who were deported from Vichy France to the concentration camps. Crypt. |
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Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr Alexandre Petrzitz, Georges Goldberg, Leon Arretche Paris, France 1956 Significance: Combines a specifically Jewish memory of genocide with elements of traditional war memorials of universal appeal. |
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Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr Alexandre Petrzitz, Georges Goldberg, Leon Arretche Paris, France 1956 Significance: Combines a specifically Jewish memory of genocide with elements of traditional war memorials of universal appeal. |
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Monument to the victims of the roundup July 16-17, 1942 Walter Spitzer Paris, France 1994 Significance: Spitzer was a camp escapee. Bronze group of seven civilians of all ages, surrounded by luggage, recalls the abandonment and the hopelessness of the deportees. |
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Casa del Fascio Giuseppe Terragni Como, Italy 1933-1936 Significance: |
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B.B.P.R Palazzo del Littorio, competition entry Rome, Italy 1934 |
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B.B.P.R Cimetero Monumentale Milan, Italy 1946 |
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Staziano Termini (ticketing hall) Eugenio Montuori and Anniballe Vitellozzi Rome, Italy 1947-1950 |
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Fosse Ardeante Monument Mario Fiorentino and Giuseppe Perugini Rome, Italy March 24, 1949 |
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Fosse Ardeante Monument Mario Fiorentino and Giuseppe Perugini Rome, Italy March 24, 1949 |
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Mission Memorial Building Complex H.L. Kerr Honolulu, Hawai'i 1915-1930 |
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Territorial Office Building Arthur Reynolds Honolulu, Hawai'i 1926 |
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Allied Architects Honolulu Halle Honolulu, Hawai'i 1928 |
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The Alexander Baldwin Building Charles Dickey Honolulu, Hawai'i 1929 |
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Hardie Phillips C. Brewer and Company Honolulu, Hawaii 1930 |
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The Financial Plaza of the Pacific Leo S. Wou and Associates Honolulu, Hawai'i 1966 |
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National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Weihe, Frick and Kruse and Theodore Vierra Honolulu, Hawai'i 1949-present |
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Court of Honor National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Weihe, Frick and Kruse and Theodore Vierra Honolulu, Hawai'i 1949-present |
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USS Arizona Memorial Alfred Preis Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 1961-1962 |
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USS Arizona Memorial Alfred Preis Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 1961-1962 |
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Memorial to the Dead Isamu Noguchi Hiroshima, Japan 1952 unbuilt project Significance: Commemorate 200,000 people who died at Nagasaki and Hiroshima in the atomic bombs. Two rectilinear platforms. Black granite arch rising to the sky, emblematic of peace. Rejected proposal. |
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Memorial Monument for Hiroshima Kenzo Tange Hiroshima, Japan 1949-1955 Significance: Define Japan in a post-wwII period. Emergence of modernism in Japan, history of the atomic bomb, testimony of the survivors. Corbusier's five points of architecture. |
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Memorial Monument for Hiroshima Kenzo Tange Hiroshima, Japan 1949-1955 Significance: Cenotaph, resembles Noguchi's model |
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World War II Memorial Washington, D.C. 2004 Significance: the modern classical, centered around a reflective pool, 56 granite pillars that go around, signify the states and territories, arched pavilions, inscribed pacific and atlantic, illusion to classicism, rectangular not arched, freedom wall - those who died |
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum James Ingo Freed Washington, D.C. 1989-1993 Significance: |
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H2L2 Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial Normandy, France 1945-1952 Significance: |
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Monument to the Women of the World War II John W. Mills London, England 2005 Significance: not speak to a specific individual, clothing on pegs, returned home after a day of work |
