Lectio Magistralis. Accademia di Brera, Milan, 27/01/2012. Peter Eisenman. First, I want to thank the Brera Academy. It is a great honor. As part of that honor I would like to share a few personal thoughts with you. Many scholars have noted the impossibility of a stable language after the Holocaust, that a poetic language, like German, could never be the same. This is also true of architecture in particular, whose language always had problems in terms of the representation and expression of deep emotions or feelings. This is especially true in the case of a memorial, and more specifically one to the Murdered Jews of Europe. More generally, the problem of an architectural language has to do with the representation of anything in architecture, especially in attempting something which clearly has as its primary goal an emotional narrative. To understand this problem, it is necessary to paraphrase a debate in the 18th century between two German philosophers, Gottfried Lessing a...
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