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NOTE: Languages: French, English.
Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a perfect artist?” Speer, Adolf Hitler’s architect of choice, happens to be liable for some of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of up to date times.
First published in 1985 to an acute and very important reception, Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942 is a lucid, wide-ranging study of the most important neoclassical architect. Yet is is concurrently a lot 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 nice 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 town intended to be the capital of Europe.