Daniel among the philosophers: The Jewish Museum, Berlin, and architecture after Auschwitz

Walter Benjamin and Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-159

  Smith, Terry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203865927     Document Type: Chapter

References (19)

1. See Sebastian Redecke and Andreas Kernbach (2001), Das Reichstagsgebäude: architektur und kunst, Berlin: Deutsche Bundestag.
2. Robert Jan van Pelt (1994), "Auschwitz: from architect's promise to inmate's perdition", Modernism/Modernity, 1(1): 82.
3. Berlin Museum (1988), Architect's Competition Brief, Berlin: Berlin Museum, n.p.
4. "Between the Lines, Jewish Museum, Berlin, 1988-99", in Libeskind (2000), The Space of Encounter, p. 26.
5. Walter Benjamin (1979), One-Way Street and Other Writings, London: New Left Books.
6. "Between the Lines, Jewish Museum, Berlin, 1988-9", Libeskind (2000), The Space of Encounter, p. 23.
7. Kurt W. Forster (1999), "Frank O. Gehry Guggenheim Museum" in Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Angeli Sachs eds., Museums for a New Millennium: concepts projects buildings, Munich, London, New York: Prestel, p. 129.
8. Ignasi de Solà-Morales (1997), Differences: topographies of contemporary architecture, Cambridge, Mass:MIT Press, pp. 56-70.
9. Vidler (2001), "Warped space," p. 296.
10. Andrew Benjamin (1997), "The architecture of hope, Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum" in his Present Hope: philosophy, architecture, Judaism, London: Routledge, pp. 103-18.
11. Libeskind (2000), The Space of Encounter, p. 26.
12. Benjamin (1997), Present Hope, p. 112.
13. See Ken Gorbey (2001), Discovering the Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin: Stiftung Jüdisches Museum Berlin.
14. Vidler (2001), "Warped space", p. 299.
15. See Anthony Vidler (1992), The Architectural Uncanny: essays in the modern unhomely, Cambridge, Mass:MIT Press.
16. Romi Khosla (2002), The Loneliness of a Long Distant Future; dilemmas of contemporary architecture, New Delhi: Tulika Books.
17. See Daniel Bertrand Monk (2002), An Aesthetic Occupation: the immediacy of architecture and the Palestinian conflict, Durham: Duke University Press, introduction and passim.
18. Gershom Scholem (2002), The Fullness of Time: poems, trans. Richard Sieburth, Jerusalem: Ibis Editions.
19. "Curriculum Vitae (VI): Dr Walter Benjamin," in (2003), Walter Benjamin: selected writings, volume 4, 1938-1940, trans. Edmund Jephcott and others, Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, p. 381.