Mo(ve)ments in the half-light. The Holocaust Memorial by Peter Eisenman and the Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind in Berlin

Between Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial compressive chessboard and Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Musem labyrinth of lost senses, space has an acrid, at times nauseating, taste that brings with it all the sense of shame and the fear of oblivion of one or more generations. This type of architecture, embodying horrors and fears, acts irrepressibly on the body, on its instinctive and perceptive systems, on consciousness and associated memories, leaving an indelible mark on those who voluntarily or involuntarily experience it.