Juxtaposed with Charleston’s Citadel & Calhoun Memorial

Activating the spiritual space with sculpture

Interrupted pathway

Monumental two-story diaphanous stainless screen

Architect’s hand-sculpted 16 foot bronze

Prone funerary shawl

Bronze texture & detail from life

Sample Description

Integrated urban planning, architecture and sculpture

Holocaust Memorial

Charleston Jewish Federation, Charleston, SC

JLA provided a synthesis of urban planning, architecture and sculpture for this memorial, which was placed to straddle a major path traversing centrally located Marion Square. The ‘interior’ of the memorial is formed by a two-story high screen of mill-finish stainless steel. At its center is a 16 ft. funerary bronze sculpted by the architect. The visitor is called upon to speculate on the nature of the boundary and his or her place in relation to it - whether to be within or without. The memorial is constructed of special concrete, detailed and heavily reinforced to strengthen the monolithic aura of the material.

Size: 6,000 gsf

Recognition

2001 Religious Arts Award Visual Arts, Faith & Form Magazine and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art & Architecture
2000 Award for Excellence in Architecture - Honor Award AIA/New England
1999 Award for Design Excellence – Honor Award AIA/Boston Society for Architecture
“Millennium Awards Issue” Faith and Form, 2001
“The Holocaust: A Reconciliation of Two Portraits” cover feature, B. Meyer/J. Levi, Faith and Form, 1999
“Holocaust Memorial, Charleston, SC” World Magazine – Journal of the Unitarian-Universalist Society, 1999
Harvard Design Magazine Winter 2000
“Remembering”, R. Behre Charleston Sunday Post and Courier, 1999
“The Power of Memory” M.S. Grossman, Charleston Magazine, 1997

Shaping Charleston's Major Public Space

Memorial of gathering space

Anchoring Marion Square

Straddling the square's main pathway