Daniella on Design - The 9/11 Memorial and the Power of Simplicity

The new World Trade Center Memorial, designed by Michael Arad, opens on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. This new memorial honors victims of September 11th and the victims of the earlier terrorist attach -- the 1993 bombing of the North Tower. It is called "Reflecting Absence." The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, once the tallest buildings in the world, were designed by the American architect Minoru Yamasaki in 1965 and completed in 1973. They were minimalist structures of glass and steel that symbolized a modernist corporate image. They were often derided as lacking in character but over the past decade, the Twin Towers have become icons of lost dreams. Paul Goldberger calls them Martyrs, and Martyrs are beyond criticism. Memorials are a powerful force in conscience and politics, therefore they are often contentious. For centuries, simplicity and abstraction have been a trustworthy approach to memorial design, a poetic way to kindle memory and express deep trauma. Consider the pure, basic geometry of Geothe's "Altar of Good Fortune," which he created for his garden in Weimar. Or his contemporary, Etienne Louis Boullee, who designed a memorial for the physicist and philosopher Isaac Newton. If Boullee's design had been built, it would have been in the form of a simple, perfect sphere. One of the most significant memorials of our time is Peter Eisenman's Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. It is comprised of an entire city block covered in a grid of concrete pillars, which ...



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