Four Freedoms Memorial

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Left the southern tip of Roosevelt Island with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park at the end of May 2012

The Four Freedoms Memorial was designed in 1973 and 1974 by the American architect Louis I. Kahn for the southern headland of Roosevelt Island ( New York City ) as part of a memorial park (Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park). It was intended to commemorate the four freedoms that President Franklin D. Roosevelt named in his 1941 State of the Union address as the foundations of a lasting democratic order. Roosevelt's speech was groundbreaking and influenced, among other things, the establishment of the United Nations and the conception of the UN Charter of Human Rights .

The project was shut down due to the death of the architect and the appointment of the then Governor of New York, Nelson A. Rockefeller , one of the main supporters of the project, to the office of US Vice President . It was only taken up again in 2010 and implemented according to Kahn's plans. On October 24, 2012 the park was opened to the public.

literature

  • Luigi Monzo: The Park of the Four Freedoms. In: STEIN: Zeitschrift für Naturstein, 131.2014 / 5 (May), pp. 14-18.
  • Michael Merrill: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial by Louis Kahn. In: Bauwelt, 2012/17, pp. 6–10.
  • McCarter, Robert: Louis I. Kahn. Berlin 2009, pp. 434-439.

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Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 59 "  N , 73 ° 57 ′ 41"  W.