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.st 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.er
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. - See
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