memory & architecture at the limits
Topography of Terror refers to the activities within Gestapo and SS in Nazi Germany, and the actual site of the headquarters out of which the two institutions operated. The building was ravaged by war, and remained largely grown over ruins largely forgotten until the 1980's. Within the last three decades, as many ideas competitions were held for a museum on site. These included Peter Zumthor's widely published winning entry that remains unrealized. The struggle to find a suitable architectural solution for the site reflects a wider coming to terms with a horrific past. Topography of Terror provide rich ground for the study of how architecture might remember the past while negotiating a future, and shifting position of architecture as an enabler of these goals.
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