United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum sits at one hundred Raoul Wallenberg Place in Southwest Washington, distinct for its use of industrial brick and steel forms that intentionally evoke the unsettling architectural language of death camps and ghettos. Designed by James Ingo Freed, a child refugee who escaped Germany in nineteen thirty-nine, the building avoids literal replicas in favor of abstract, angular spaces. Visitors move through a carefully orchestrated environment, starting in the industrial, light-filled Hall of Witness and progressing toward the solemn, hexagonal Hall of Remembrance.