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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

The Unbuilt Nazi Pantheon: Unpacking Albert Speer's "Volkshalle"

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The Unbuilt Nazi Pantheon: Unpacking Albert Speer's "Volkshalle" According to Albert Speer, Hitler's ambitious architec...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Welthauptstadt Germania 1960

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The renewal project Welthauptstadt Germania will have monolithic, gargantuan structures of epic scale that celebrates total victory of...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Albert Speer Architecture 1932-1942

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Written by Leon Krier, Preface by Robert A. M. Stern Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Speer...
Sunday, May 8, 2016

Newly released drawings reveal Adolf's plans for Munich filled with gargantuan buildings

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Although he will go down in history as one of the most evil and destructive dictators of all time, Hitler saw himself as a creative soul....
Monday, March 28, 2016

Nazi party rally grounds: An expansive field, known as Zeppelinfield, which played host to military rallies.

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Far off in the distance, you can barely make out a swastika in the middle of an all-white ledge. That's where Adolf Hitler delivered ...

German pavilion: A towering monolith built for the 1937 international expo in Paris.

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Initially, Hitler wanted nothing to do with the 1937 world expo , but with Speer's reassurance that the German pavilion would leave s...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Neo-Classical Power Architecture

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The Great German Art exhibition was housed in a purpose-built museum, designed in the style of an antique temple by the architect P...