Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942 - Hardcover

Krier, Leon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580933548 ISBN 13: 9781580933544

Verlag: The Monacelli Press, 2013

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Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect of choice, happens to be responsible for one of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of modern times.

First published in 1985 to an acute and critical reception, Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942 is a lucid, wide-ranging study of an important neoclassical architect. Yet is is simultaneously much more: a philosophical rumination on art and politics, good and evil. With aid from a new introduction by influential American architect Robert A. M. Stern, Krier candidly confronts the great difficulty of disentangling the architecture and urbanism of Albert Speer from its political intentions.

Krier bases his study on interviews with Speer just before his death. The projects presented center on his plan for Berlin, an unprecedented modernization of the city intended to be the capital of Europe.

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Born in 1946, Léon Krier is one of the most influential architects teaching and writing today. He has taught architecture and urbanism at the Royal College of Arts in London, and in the United States at Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Virginia. He has worked extensively in Europe and North America and is currently consulting on projects in Guatemala, Romania, England, Belgium, Italy, France, and the United States. In 2003, he received the inaugural Richard Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture.

Robert A. M. Stern is the founding partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects and dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is the author of the monumental five-volume history of New York’s architecture and urban development, culminating with New York 2000. Major current architectural projects include the new residential colleges at Yale University and the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

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Author Leon Krier asks, "Can a war criminal be a great artist?" To answer affirmatively, Krier shows that Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect of choice, is responsible for one of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of modern times. Krier bases his study of this seminal classical designer on a series of interviews with Speer. The projects presented center on Speer's plan for Berlin, an unprecedented modernization of the city intended to be the capital of Europe. In addition to the urban plan, Speer designed buildings for major institutions and agencies, including the monumental Great Hall, Hitler's Palace, the High Command of the Armed Forces, the New Chancellery, and the Triumphal Arch. Illustrations are drawn primarily from Speer's personal archivethis facsimile edition, Krier candidly confronts the great difficulty of disentangling the architecture and urbanism of Albert Speer from its political intentions. This difficulty notwithstanding, Krier's presentation is an important contribution to the study of classicism in architecture and architecture in affairs of state.

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• Verlag: The Monacelli Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1580933548
• ISBN 13: 9781580933544
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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