Albert Speer—one of the most mythologized figures in the history of twentieth century architecture—is the subject of Anna Bronovitskaya’s next lecture.
Albert Speer’s brilliantly written autobiography has formed a convincing image of him as a “good Nazi”, but the 1985 book by Leon Krier portrays Speer as a politically neutral representative of the neoclassical tradition and even a postmodernist hero.
The lecture will acquaint the listeners with the latest studies on Speer, contextualizing his projects within the practice of his colleagues who served the needs of the Nazi state, and will underline the gap between the architect’s own aesthetic positions and the hypertrophied heroics propelled by Speer’s main client and patron.
