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The key concept in the Berlin Memorial was to separate the external "field of experience" from the internal "structure of memory."
By maintaining this distinction, Eisenman creates a place that represents nothing, a zone of social production that invites playfulness, rather that conjuring the harsh realities of the past.
As individuals wander deeper into the field, the growing height and instability of the stelae recreate the oppressive experience of the holocaust.
The holocaust memorial offers licence to the user to engage the landscape as they see fit. By instigating social production, the structure ensures an architecture of permanence not unlike that of Rossi's Modena Cemetery.
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