The design of public memorials.For Teachers The design of the World Trade Center Memorial has been in the news lately, the focus of much controversy. Initially six designs were submitted but seven others soon replaced them after objections by both critics and the public. A recently announced design is a collaboration between Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Jewish American architect, who has designed many prominent and celebrated buildings, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Imperial War Museum , David Childs David M. Childs (born 1941 Princeton, New Jersey) is the Consulting Design Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill who has projects all over the world and now is designing the Freedom Tower in New York. , and Michael Arad Michael Arad is an Israeli citizen and architect who was selected to design the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City. Early life Arad was born in Israel but he has lived in the United States, Britain, and Mexico because his father: Moshe Arad, was an Israeli . Issues surrounding the design of memorials may be explored by you and your students, and then followed through in their own design proposals for specific monuments. www.thewtcmemorial.com/ The World Trade Center Memorial must be a response to the single greatest disaster in modern history. Creating an appropriate memorial is no easy task. The official site offers comprehensive information that includes news, history, personal accounts, poetry, illustrations, and much more. www.pbs.org/art21/discuss/ archive/ Art 21: Art in the 21st Century provides a forum about two of the artists on the World Trade Center Memorial jury, Maya Lin Noun 1. Maya Lin - United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959) Lin and Martin Puryear Martin Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an African American sculptor. He was born in Washington, D.C., and he spent his youth studying practical crafts, learning how to build guitars and furniture. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone from 1964 to 1966. . Included are thoughtful questions for class discussion. www.wtcsitememorial.org The winning design of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition The World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was an open, international memorial contest, initiated by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), as per the specifications of architect Daniel Libeskind, to design a World Trade Center Site Memorial (later renamed the , available at this site, is called Reflecting Absence and is the work of Michael Arad and Peter Walker. www.911digitalarchive.org/ The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the 9/11 attacks. You might share some of the stories or images at your discretion with your students. www.americanhistory.si.edu/ september11/ The Smithsonian National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History is a museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution and located in Washington, D.C., on the National Mall. It opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology and adopted its current name in 1980. has a similar site, called Bearing Witness to History. www.livingmemorialsproject. net/ The response of the U.S Forest Service to September 11 was to create the Living Memorials Project. Browse this site to see if you would like to create a similar project with your students. The Design of Public Memorials For Students Directions: Visit the websites listed below and answer the questions on a separate piece of paper. www.worldtradecenter.com/ The design of a memorial for the World Trade Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. has recently been chosen, but memorials can take many forms. What does this one simple image mean to you? www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/ World Trade_Center.html Here you can look at photographs of the World Trade Center towers taken before September 11, 2001. www.thewtcmemorial.com/ Here you can give your answer to the question, "What do you think would be an appropriate memorial to the World Trade Center victims at the WTC WTC World Trade Center, see there location?" Submit your answer, then view the results. www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin7. html View the winning design for the World Trade Center Memorial, then read the mission statement for the design at www.classbrain.com/ artfree/publish/article_185.shtml. How well does the design fit the mission statement? What do you think of the design? www.wtcsitememorial.org/final ists.html Here you can look at the previous submissions. Do you prefer any of these to the chosen design? If so, why? Now that you have looked at so many submissions, draw a design of your own. www.healingthruart.com/ exhibits/children/ Many artists have responded to September 11 through their work. Visit Healing Art and click on the gallery to look at artwork from students your age. Draw your own response. bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/symbols/ vietnam.html Read about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vietnam Veterans Memorial, war memorial in Washington, D.C., built 1982. Designed by the American sculptor and architect Maya Ying Lin, it is a sloping, V-shaped, 493-ft (150-m) wall of highly polished black granite that descends 10 feet (3. at this site. Maya Lin, one of the judges for the World Trade Center Memorial, designed it when she was a twenty-one-year-old architecture student at Yale. |
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