Located haphazardly so as not to create a sacred place
Does the bold section mean he planted trees randomly between the slabs in order to reduce the sacredness of the memorial? That is, a lot of slabs without anything between them could have looked sacred?
Context:
The Holocaust Memorial that opened in Berlin in May 2005 consists of 2,711 concrete slabs, a few over two metres high. Civic ordinances required the planting of forty-one trees, which the American architect Peter Eisenmann located haphazardly so as not to create a sacred place.
Top answer
The sacred grove is a fixture of pagan religion. He spaced the trees out in such a way that they would not constitute one. He included trees at all only because was forced to by local law.
- The sacred grove is a fixture of pagan religion.
- He spaced the trees out in such a way that they would not constitute one.
- He included trees at all only because was forced to by local law.
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The sacred grove is a fixture of pagan religion. He spaced the trees out in such a way that they would not constitute one. He included trees at all only because was forced to by local law.
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