An exception of Peter Eisenman

Eisenman believes that the process of design is to exclude personal and cultural factors, architectural form is just a set of symbols, is evolved from the logic of the building itself. For example, ‘House I’ was an effort to conceive of and understand the physical environment in a logically consistent manner, potentially independent of its function and meaning. But I think the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin was a contradiction with his previous work, it is a memorial covered with 2,711 concrete stelae, arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. When I first visit the memorial, the atmosphere that the concrete stelae created were amazing, I was lost and lonely in the space, which he was intended to create.  The intention of this design have related to the history and culture of Berlin, and the spaces that the stelae created reflected the emotion of the people in the Holocaust.

I do agree that not all the architecture that we designed necessary need to have a meaning or function behind it. But if Holocaust memorial without the meaning, this place might just a place that full of concrete or just might be a ‘cool’ place for a selfie.