Albert Speer (The Younger)

Albert Speer (born July 29, 1934 in Berlin) is a famous German architect and urban planner. He is son of the architect and politician Albert Speer. Also his grandfather and his great-grandfather were architects. He won his first international prize in 1964, and opened his own architecht office. He had great international success, and worked much in Saudi Arabia. In 1977 he became professor of urban planning in Kaiserslautern. In 1984 he founded the company Bro Albert Speer & Partner in Frankfurt am Main, which currently has more than 100 employees and is one the biggest and most well-reputated architechtural and urban planning companies in Germany. Recently, he was responsible for the design of Expo 2000 (the world exposition that took place in Hanover in the year 2000), design of the Shanghai International Automobile City and the Bejing olympic complex. In 2003 he received the Goethe Prize of his home town Frankfurt.

Literature

  • Albert Speer & Partner, Planen und Bauen, Urbanism and Achitecture, Paulhans Peters, Birkhuser Zrich 1997, ISBN 3764352655

External links

  • http://www.as-p.de - official homepage
  • http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,331204,00.html
Speer, Albert (junior) Speer, Albert (junior)

 

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