Proyectos para un paisaje de la memoriael Concurso para el Memorial de Auschwitz-Birkenau

  1. Álvarez Álvarez, Darío
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Cuaderno de notas

ISSN: 1138-1590

Year of publication: 2021

Issue: 22

Pages: 120-135

Type: Article

DOI: 10.20868/CN.2021.4752 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The competition for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, started in 1957, represents a milestone in the reflection on the meaning of an architectural landscape of memory in the second half of the 20th century. The projects that were presented in the different phases of the contest, which lasted ten years until 1967, contain not only a strong formal charge but also an important conceptual search to symbolically reflect and synthesize, through architectural and landscape elements, the footprint of all the horror that had been lived in the Polish Death Camp. Among all of them stands out the project “The Road”, developed by the team led by the architect Oskar Hansen, a proposal that, if it had been carried out, would have marked a new meaning in the architectural landscape project in its relationship with avant-garde plastic movements. However, the end result of the competition was the construction of a mere commemorative monument of little character, thus missing a great opportunity in the research and development of contemporary architectural landscapes.

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