“In history there were two basic visions of time, one was cyclical, another linear. Most recent was the linear: darting or plodding forward while dismantling the bridges once crossed. There’s no way back, you can’t return, you can’t reverse. Certainly ours is not cyclical time – nothing repeats now exactly as the last time: ‘last year’ means now ‘outdated’, and ‘the way things were done’ is the way they should be done no more… People who are at the forefront of organizational progress are certainly afraid of sticking to experience and tradition. None of the two models fit liquid modernity. Time is no longer cyclical, but not linear either because events and actions succeed each other randomly rather than in a straight line, and seem to change direction on their way… Living though the moment, one point in time, you can not be sure to what configuration you will eventually belong when scrutinized retrospectively.

Aerial View

• Architect: AquiliAlberg
• Project: Jewish Memorial in Frankfurt
• Location: Frankfurt am Main – Germany
• Client: Stadtplanungsamt Frankfurt am Main
• Phase: First phase competition
• Site area: 16500 sqm
• Year: 2009 – 2010
• Design team: Ergian Alberg, Laura Aquili, Alessio Pucci, Christian Ronchi

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