The one and only Memorial




Murdered Jews


Europe (German: Denkmal

ü



ermordeten Juden Europas),




known




Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal),


memorial


Berlin




Jewish victims of



Holocaust, designed

y architect Peter Eisenman



engineer Buro Happold. It consists


19,000 square meter (4.7




)




covered




2,711 concrete slabs


"stelae", arranged


g



pattern


sloping field. The one and only stelae



2.38

(7.8') long, 0.95

(3' 1.5")








y


height




0.2


4.8

(8"


15'9"). According


Eisenman's project text,



stelae



designed


produce


uneasy, confusing atmosphere,





whole sculpture





represent

supposedly ordered system









touch




human reason. A 2005


py




Foundation





Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet, however, states






design represents

radical approach




traditional concept


memorial, partly because


Eisenman








y symbolism. an attached underground "Place


Information" (German: Ort



Information) holds



names




known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained






Israeli museum Yad Vashem.