How do we remember?


“Kahn’s Memorial to FDR Finally Finds Home in East River,” on Louis Kahn’s design for the memorial to Franklin Roosevelt, Bloomberg, Oct. 13, 2012

“Top-Secret $510 Million Ground Zero Museum Wallows in Grief” * on design of below-ground museum in World Trade Center Memorial, by Davis Brody Bond, Bloomberg, 6/1/2007

“Beirut’s Forgiveness Garden, Slated for 2008, On Wartime Hold” considers the power of a garden design to reduce long-held animosities, by Gustafson Porter, landscape architect, Bloomberg, 8/17/2006

“Time To Scrap Arad’s Billion-Dollar Memorial” on the overblown World Trade Center Memorial, Bloomberg, 6/2/2006

“Ground Zero: Snohetta’s Elegant Center; Trump’s Crude Proposal” on the Freedom Center, at Ground Zero, and a plan by Donald Trump to duplicate destroyed World Trade Center towers, Bloomberg, 5/19/2005

“Ground Zero Memorial Becomes Necropolis to Grief” on how focusing on the victims sends the wrong message, Bloomberg, 2/15/2005

“Architect of U.S World War II Memorial Talks of Symbols” interview with Friedrich St. Florian, FAIA, Bloomberg, 6/23/2004

Who Owns Grief?” interview with memorial expert Edward Linenthal, Architectural Record, 7/2002

“Axel Schultes takes mourners at a crematorium from the clamor of daily life to a realm of calm and contemplation” On the Bunshulenweg Crematorium, Berlin, design reporting. Architectural Record, 5/2000

“Crowding the Mall” Design and political considerations concerning memorial design in Washington, D. C. Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 1999

“Art and Politics Vie in a Battle to Honor a Monumental War” on controversies surrounding World War II Memorial and others in Washington, D.C. The New York Times, 4/41999

“Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin Speaks To a History Both Rich and Tragic” Architectural Record, chronology and assessment. 1/1999

“Permanent Witness” Critical assessment of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, Pei Cobb Freed, architect; Architectural Record, 7/1993