Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300169140)

The first major study to examine the rise to prominence of Jewish architects since 1945 and the connection of their work to the legacy of the Holocaust

Since the end of World War II, Jewish architects have risen to unprecedented international prominence. Whether as modernists, postmodernists, or deconstructivists, architects such as Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Louis I. Kahn, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Moshe Safdie, Robert A.M. Stern, and Stanley Tigerman have made pivotal contributions to postwar architecture. They have also decisively shaped Jewish architectural history, as many of their designs are influenced by Jewish themes, ideas, and imagery. Building After Auschwitz is the first major study to examine the origins of this "new Jewish architecture."

Historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld describes this cultural development as the result of important shifts in Jewish memory and identity since the Holocaust, and cites the rise of postmodernism, multiculturalism, and Holocaust consciousness as a catalyst. In showing how Jewish architects responded to the Nazi genocide in their work, Rosenfeld's study sheds new light on the evolution of Holocaust memory.

Author: Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
ISBN-10: 0300169140
ISBN-13: 9780300169140
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2011
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.03lbs
Size: 10.22h x 7.91w x 1.37d
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist
Award: IndieFab awards - Honorable Mention

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2012