With their evocative stylization of the natural environment, the 18th- and 19th Century woodblock prints of Katsushika Hokusai have influenced generations of artists around the world. This fall, they’ve influenced the very design of an exhibition of them from the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow, conceived by NArchitekTURA.
Landscape architecture studio Narchitektura has used 40 grey sandstone slabs to create a memorial park on the site of a former synagogue in Oświęcim, the Polish city where the Auschwitz concentration camp was located.
Named The Great Synagogue Memorial Park, the memorial stands on the site of Oświęcim s Great Synagogue, which was burnt down by the Nazi party in 1939 during Germany s occupation of Poland.
The park occupies the site of Oświęcim s Great Synagogue The main idea behind the memorial park comes from an archival photo taken just after the demolition of the Great Synagogue in Oświęcim by the Nazis at the beginning of world war two, said Narchitektura founder Bartosz Haduch.