BABYN YAR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER

EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

“The design competition for the Babyn Yar Memorial Center a building to house the normalized functions of exhibition, archiving, storage, and education on a continuing basis. However, upon reading the brief, we find the enormity of the activity being commemorated to be so horrific and absolutely unimaginable that to produce a functional building as a response to the memorial program is to further participate in an attempt to normalize the genocidal crime that was committed here. We propose a twofold response: to not produce an object building, and to excavate the site to recall its former contours. Together, the site work and the imprint of a building propose a new icon of remembrance. “