In this class we spend time discussing Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans' Memorial of 1982, comparing and contrasting it with Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe of 2005.

1. Architecture and
Memory
Veterans Day
November 11, 2015

2. Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982

3. Abraham Lincoln delivered the
"Gettysburg Address" at the site of
Civil War battle in Gettysburg, PA
on November 19, 1863

4. "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not
consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated
it, far above our poor power to add or detract."

5. "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us
the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced."

6. "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us -- that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died
in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom -- and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth."
FOR FULL TEXT AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm

7. Maya LIN, Vietnam Veterans War Memorial, 1982

16. Maya Lin as a young woman.
She was 21 when she won the
competition to design the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial.
The Woolsey Hall Rotunda
at Yale.

18. a frequent shortcut for students
going to class or meals

20. relief sculptures flank the carved
panels, inscribed with thousands of
names

22. marble panels encircle the rotunda carved with name, date of graduation, rank, place
and date of death

23. Civil War Memorial, Yale

25. WW I Memorial in traditional sarcophagus format

26. SOM
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
1963

29. the interior has an eerie glow when sunlight strikes the panels
directly

30. Isamu Noguchi, sunken sculpture garden, Beinecke Plaza

31. visual mashup of old
and new

33. Peter EISENMAN, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, 2005
4.7 acre site in central Berlin
2,711 individual forms, varying in height from 8 inches to over 15 ft tall

34. aerial view showing the general layout of the site

35. the blocks are at varying heights

40. Washington Monument
Restoration (1998)
Graves was hired by the National Park Service to design scaffolding that would
not obscure the monument.
aluminum framework covered with a translucent mesh, patterned to look like the
monument's stones. The actual obelisk shone through even as it was being
repaired.
"We think it's important, as a teaching device, to describe, especially to kids, that
buildings need care," Graves said, "and so over a period of time, buildings
deteriorate and they need to be cared for, just like we do."