LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
ARCHITECTURE TALKS
11 November
6 p.m.
Ort: Rathaus, Steinsaal II, Stiege 2, Lichtenfelsgasse 1,
1010 Vienna
Memorial, Memory and Language after the Holocaust
Peter Eisenman (New York)
OPENING REMARKS: Sylvia Mattl-Wurm (Director of the Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek)
MODERATOR: Gerfried Sperl (Der Standard)
Synopsis: The visual arts and architecture have been dominated by a narrative of presence and the optical as primary means of cognition. With the idea of trace and the erasure of presence in time in the concept of "differance", the attempt to detach being from the opticality of pure presence to introduce memory and the unconscious has interesting consequences for architecture.
Peter Eisenman, M.A., Ph.D. internationally recognized architect, recipient of many honours and awards, is currently the Louis Kahn Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Eisenman Architects’ current projects include a 68.000-seat multipurpose stadium for the Arizona Cardinals in Phoenix; a 750.000-square-foot cultural complex; the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (which includes two museums, two libraries, and an opera house); the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, dedicated in May 2005 in Berlin.
The event in the Rathaus is held at the invitation of the Wiener Stadt- und Landes Bibliothek.