Once upon a sign relationships of architecture and narrative in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Abstract

This paper is concerned with ways in which meaning, assembled into narratives, can be injected into architecture. Rather than seeking the translation of narrative tools into new architectural devices, each section interrogates an existing architectural technique to examine the ways in which it can become the entry point for narrative into a corner of a design. The United States Holocaust Museum, as a building infused with narrative, is used as a testing ground for these hypotheses.