Four Freedoms Memorial
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.
Web links
- Michael Merrill: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial by Louis Kahn. (accessed on November 21, 2012; PDF file; 428 kB)
- Luigi Monzo: vanishing freedom : Louis Kahn and the Park of the Four Freedoms in New York (accessed May 20, 2014)
Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 59 " N , 73 ° 57 ′ 41" W.