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2 Building of Memory: Managing Creativity Through Action by Alexander Laufer, Zvi Ziklik, and Jeffrey Russell Initial Stages: Making Progress by Splitting Yad Vashem is a memorial site to the six million Jews killed by the Nazis. The 45-acre site located near Jerusalem contains several museums and various research and educational centers. The largest museum on site is the new Holocaust History Museum, which opened in March 2005. The architect of this museum, Moshe Safdie, who is a leading international designer, concludes his book Yad Vashem—The Architecture of Memory as follows: “No design I have ever undertaken was so charged with sym- bolic associations. It seemed that every move, form, shape, and sequence elicited multiple interpretations and endless debate. Now that the public has possessed the complex, I am amazed at the diversity of interpretations and reactions. When I am there, I often become a voyeur and watch visitors’ reactions and listen to their conversations. I have always wondered if architecture is capable of evoking the same emotions that we experience lis- tening to music. At Yad Vashem, I am constantly aware of how intensely personal the feelings provoked are and how individual 51 52 Mastering the Leadership roLe in project ManageMent and particular. It is at these moments that I feel architecture can, however rarely, move us as deeply as music can.” Shimon Kornfeld, the project manager of the Holocaust His- tory Museum, recalls another kind of music that prevailed when he was appointed to lead the project from the early stages of the design. Loud voices and even shouting were known to accompany the pas- sionate and intense debates about the fundamental con