Main entry:

Krier, Léon.

Title & Author:

Albert Speer : architecture 1932-1942 / Léon Krier ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern.

Publication:

[New York] : Monacelli Press, ©2013.

Description:

xxvii, 245 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 33 cm

Notes:
Includes translation of a German work by Speer, originally published in 1978 under title: Architektur : Arbeiten 1933-1942, with a foreword by Speer and essay by Lars Olof Larsson.
Facsimile of Krier's edition of Speer's work originally published in 1985, with a new preface and foreword.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An architecture of desire 2012 / Léon Krier; ed. Irene Pérez-Porro -- Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942.
New material in English; original work in French and English.

Summary:

Architect Leon 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, this title 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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781580933544 (hbk.)
1580933548 (hbk.)

Subject:

Speer, Albert, 1905-1981.
Speer, Albert 1905-1981
National socialism and architecture.
Architecture Germany Berlin History.
Nazisme et architecture.
Architecture Allemagne Berlin Histoire.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture
Architektur
Architecture Germany Berlin History 20th century.
Arkitektur.
Nazism.
Germany Berlin
Tyskland.

Form/genre:

French language materials Bilingual.
Facsimiles (reproductions)
History

Added entries:

Stern, Robert A. M.
Speer, Albert, 1905-1981.
Larsson, Lars Olof, 1938-
Speer, Albert, 1905-1981. Architektur. English & French.

Architecture 1932-1942

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283428
Call No.: BIB 221626
Status: Available