The architect Max Rozenfeld’s walking tours of Kharkiv made him a household name in the area. Now he is getting to know the city all over again.
,” a chronicle of the months that its author, Viktor Frankl, spent in a Nazi concentration camp. In one passage, Frankl describes a spike in deaths at the camp during the week between Christmas, in 1944, and New Year’s Day. The chief doctor of the camp attributed the deaths not to living or labor conditions, which hadn’t worsened, but to the demise of hope: the men who died had somehow been convinced that they would be free by Christmas.
Then, in April, Norman Foster addressed a meeting of mayors from around the world who convened in Geneva. He stressed the role of architects in rejuvenating cities after a war, particularly in designing master plans, such as the one devised for the city of London while the Second World War was still raging. Later that month, Kharkiv’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, announced that Foster and his nonprofit, the Norman Foster Foundation, had agreed to work on such a plan in collaboration with the city.
Before the war, Max thought of himself as pragmatic and responsible, a good father and a better-than-average breadwinner. War, he told me, turned out to be a chance to dream. “You can forget what the city budget is or how dumb or bureaucratized city authorities are,” he said. “You can just set your imagination free.” He remembered reading that Frankl dreamed of standing at a podium at a university in Vienna and delivering a lecture called “Psychology of the Concentration Camp.
We entered a building that had been burned entirely, top to bottom, but its concrete structure remained. As we went from floor to floor, Max pointed out that every apartment had been furnished almost identically: a couch in the same corner—you could tell where it stood by the remaining spring coils—a china cabinet where only stacks of plates remained. Porcelain, it turns out, doesn’t burn, lose color, or break in such a fire. Everyone’s good china looked exactly the same.
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