La grieta expresiva. El paso del tiempo en el Memorial de los Judíos asesinados de Europa de Berlín

[EN] In 1997, Peter Eisenman won the competition for a Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The project was built between 2003 and 2005 on a site near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. A year after its inauguration, the first cracks appeared in the 2,711 concrete slabs that constitute the memorial...

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Autores: Martínez García-Posada, Ángel, Navarro de Pablos, Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/222993
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/222993
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Berlin
Time
Eisenman
Memory
Project
Holocausto
Berlín
Tiempo
Proyecto
Descripción
Sumario:[EN] In 1997, Peter Eisenman won the competition for a Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The project was built between 2003 and 2005 on a site near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. A year after its inauguration, the first cracks appeared in the 2,711 concrete slabs that constitute the memorial. This sparked a debate among the media, technicians and administrations that lasted until 2016. Over those years a multitude of studies were conducted, and treatments were applied, yet none succeeded in stopping the proliferation of cracks, delamination and other defects. This text retraces the unveiling of the work with the aim of highlighting the critical role of action of the passage of time in the project, without which the Memorial would be meaningless. It also proposes a reflection on scale and materiality, or on the traces of the past that a city can harbour.