Main entry:

Rosenfeld, Gavriel David, 1967-

Title & Author:

Building after Auschwitz : Jewish architecture and the memory of the Holocaust / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2011.

Description:

ix, 438 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-415) and index.
Introduction -- Jewish architecture before the Holocaust. From the wilderness to World War II: a brief history of Jewish architecture -- After the Holocaust: Jewish architecture in the era of Modernism. Adorno's echoes: the Holocaust's cultural legacy at mid-century -- American synagogue architecture and the missing Holocaust -- Synagogues in Germany: between forgetting and remembrance -- Jewish architects and secular Jewish architecture -- Toward a more Jewish modernism: The architecture of Louis I. Kahn -- Jewish architecture in the postmodern era. Postmodernism, post-Holocaust culture, and architectural discourse -- The Deconstructivists: Eisenman, Libeskind, and Gehry -- Jewish architects between alienation and assimilation -- Holocaust museums: a new form of Jewish architecture? -- Jewish architecture between nightmare, nostalgia, and normalcy.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780300169140 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300169140 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture.
Judaism and architecture.
Jews Identity.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, et architecture.
Judaïsme et architecture.
Juifs Identité.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur.
Juden.
Moderne.
Judenvernichtung.
Gedenkstätte.
Judisk arkitektur.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275876
Call No.: BIB 210270
Status: Available