Albert Speer's architecture?

[StefanM]

Can anyone recommend a reference book related to Albert Speer's Nürnberg architecture? Or if anyone has any period books or photos they would like to share

[StefanM]

Does anyone have a copy of:

Albert Speer, Architektur: Arbeiten 1933-1942 (Berlin: Propyläen, 1978)



Reprint Albert Speer, Architektur: Arbeiten 1933-1942 (Berlin: Propyläen, 1995)

[big ned]

There's shedloads of examples on Amazon starting at around 70 Euro's, plus other books by him on the architecture of 'Germania' and other tomes about him and his trade by other authors.

Remember, Google is your friend.

[StefanM]

Thanks Big Ned, although google is my buddy unfortunately he is illiterate so can't recommend the best reference work from all those he found for me... so much for a having a friend like him or even Siri for that matter

[daniel1234]

Hello
i would recomend to watch the series of Hitlers Henchmen with one of the eppisodes covering Speer, It is kind of his Bio and showed alot of his designs for Hitler.Another i seem to remember was called Speer the Good Nazi that showed his architecture within the t.r.
Hope these help you, you should be able to find them on the History channels or youtube.
Daniel

[StefanM]

Hello
i would recomend to watch the series of Hitlers Henchmen with one of the eppisodes covering Speer, It is kind of his Bio and showed alot of his designs for Hitler.Another i seem to remember was called Speer the Good Nazi that showed his architecture within the t.r.
Hope these help you, you should be able to find them on the History channels or youtube.
Daniel

Will do

Many thanks Daniel!

[StefanM]

A section of the majestic "Zeppelinhaupttribüne" by Albert Speer

[StefanM]

Albert Speer Architecture 1932-1942: A superb lavishly illustrated, large "coffee table" book that has just been delivered...thanks Amazon



There is definitely something that I find awe-inspiring and almost "magical" in the aesthetic of some of Speer's work...this was truly architecture for the Gods!



Publisher's Overview

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.