Albert Speer, Jr.
Albert Friedrich Speer Jr. ( born July 29, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German urban planner and architect in Frankfurt and Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning at the University of Kaiserslautern.
Life
Albert Speer is the son of working in the time of National Socialism architect and Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions Albert Speer (1905-1981) and by Margarete Speer ( 1905-1987 ). He grew up in Berchtesgaden, the eldest of six children.
His mother moved with the children to their grandparents in Heidelberg. Because of its strong stuttering spear left school and started in 1952 in Heidelberg as a carpenter, which he completed in 1955 with the journeyman's certificate. The high school he made up for in the night school. In 1955 he began to study at the Technical University of Munich architecture. From 1960 to 1964 he worked in various architectural offices, including Germany, Sweden and Turkey. Since 1960 he is member of the Association of German Architects. Because of his father and a consequent potential bias on the jury, he took part in several competitions anonymous.
In 1964 he won second prize in an international competition for station relocation and city design in Ludwigshafen. He then founded his own office for urban and regional planning in Frankfurt am Main.
Followed in 1968 by the Urban and Regional Planning from Western Tripolitania in Libya the first job abroad. Since 1970, Albert Speer is a member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning. 1972 appointed him to the Technical University of Kaiserslautern at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, where he has the degree spatial and environmental planning with structured and significantly affected. 1994 Albert Speer was appointed Visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich. His teaching activities continued until 1997.
Albert Speer was married in first marriage to journalist Ruth Winkler. Since 1972 he has been married to his second marriage to actress Ingmar Zeisberg. His sister is the former Green Party politician Hilde Schramm.
In an interview with the magazine Der Spiegel told Speer 2010 that he was asked about the crimes of his father throughout his life and this was not easy for him. The mirror was of the opinion that no one is responsible for the acts of their parents, but also bear any responsibility. "At the also heard to ask the question whether a German progressive architect for Saudi Arabia should design the courthouse. " ... "The question whether a German architect should build a courthouse in Saudi Arabia is easy to answer. With a no. " Speer has plans designed for a courthouse in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh.
Architecture Office
His first architectural firm founded Speer 1964 in Frankfurt am Main. Mid-1960s, the scope of work included the design of new residential areas, land use plans, Old Town Renovations in medieval cities such as Lübeck, Speyer and Worms and Regional Planning Studies in Rhineland -Palatinate and Hesse.
The first large, national architectural project was commissioned in 1972 by the DG Bank in Frankfurt am Main.
In the early 1970s several international projects were added in North Africa and Asia. Began in 1973 when an eight- year stint as consultant for the Algerian government. It was followed by 1977 orders of the Saudi Arabian government. To date, various plans for Riad be edited, such as the diplomatic quarter with the Community Center, the Ministry of Water and Electricity and various urban and transport planning projects.
Since 1979, the Office advises the Messe Frankfurt in their planning. In particular, this activity is currently visible through the development of the European quarter on the site of the old Frankfurt freight station. Likewise, the office has since been with planning and consultative work of Frankfurt to the side. Examples include the Museum Embankment and the Holbeinsteg, large areas of the Frankfurt airport and part of the skyline.
In 1984, Albert Speer with colleagues the AS & P - Albert Speer & Partner in Frankfurt am Main, which has over 130 employees, is currently one of the large and prestigious offices for architecture and urban planning in Germany. At times, the office also maintained project offices in Hanover and Berlin.
1994 prepared the creation of a development structure for a district in Tianjin the way for further large Chinese projects. In recent years, the office has attracted attention in particular to the following works:
- Master plan for the Expo 2000 in Hannover
- Track triangle in Berlin
- Bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics in Leipzig
- Bid for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Munich
- BMW branch in Dreieich
- Location study Allianz Arena in Munich
- Victoria Tower in Mannheim
- Development of the Basel place in Frankfurt am Main
- Anting New Town, Shanghai, China (International Automobile City for more than 50,000 people )
- Baku Boulevard, Azerbaijan
- Projects at Frankfurt Airport
- Rehabilitation of the Festhalle in Frankfurt am Main
- Porte de Hollerech in Luxembourg ( urban development of the southern town entrance of Luxembourg )
- Master plan for the city center of Cologne
- Bid for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa
- Master plan for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar
- Master plan for the city of Tuttlingen
- Master Plan for Innovation Ruhr in Bottrop ( together with the three regional partners Gertec, food, Drecker, Bottrop and Conlab, Dusseldorf )
Involvement in China
2001 an office was opened in Shanghai in order to act and react in the planning locally. This " representative office " since the spring of 2007, a Chinese company that is 100 % AS & P. In the office, worked in 2009 more than 100 employees.
In January 2006, the Office continued through at a design competition against architectural firms from Japan, China and the United States. The office took over the plans for a 120 km ² automobile city with 300,000 inhabitants, near the Chinese industrial city of Changchun.
Prizes and Awards (excerpt)
1964 Albert Speer won the second prize in the international competition in Ludwigshafen. In 1966 he was awarded for the project satellite city birch heath with the Prize of the German Building Exhibition for Young Architects. In 1998 he won the first prize in the competition to build a new administration building for the West German Real Estate Bank and Landesbank Rheinland -Pfalz in Mainz.
2003 Albert Speer was awarded the Goethe Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main, one of the most prestigious awards in his hometown. " Albert Speer's influence on the urban development of Frankfurt can not be overstated ," a statement said. It was thanks to him that the city has found a new identity.
In 2004 he was awarded the Architecture Award of the Association of German Architects and Engineers Associations.
In October 2006, Speer was honored for his scientific commitment and the associated development of architecture and urban planning with the Federal Cross of Merit. Speer was living in the city a facelift, shaped the science relevant and Germany world represented as a recognized architect and urban planner.
Since 2007 Javelin is a member of the Board of Trustees National Urban Development Policy of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.
Foundation
In 1995, Albert Speer, a foundation that has been recognized by decision of 13 December 1994 of the Regional Council of Darmstadt as "Professor Albert Speer Foundation ".
For the purpose of the foundation is to say in the statute: "The purpose of the Foundation is the promotion of young scientists in the field of architecture and planning through the provision of scholarships, grants, study abroad and / or of a price for architects and planners who are 35 years of age may be have not yet been completed, awarded in a cycle of 2 years. "
Interviews
- Gerhard Matzig: Albert Speer about size, Interview with Albert Speer junior in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 30, 2010, page 66
Literature (selection )
- Albert Speer: The intelligent city. German publishing house (DVA ), Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-421-03033-2
- Lothar Juckel and Diedrich Praeckel (ed.): Urban Form Frankfurt: Speers contributions to urban development on Main from 1964 to 1995. With contributions by Dieter Bartetzko. German publishing house (DVA ), Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-421-03068-5
- Paul Hans Peters: Albert Speer & Partner, Planning and Construction, Urbanism and Architecture. Birkhäuser, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-7643-5265-5
- Ulrike Stark: Architect. Albert Speer and Speer plan. Fraunhofer irb, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8167-3035-3
- Jeremy Gaines and Stefan Jäger: Albert Speer & Partner. A Manifesto for sustainable urban planning. Think Local, Act Global, Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2009, 224 pp., 80 color illustrations, 20 b / w illustrations, ISBN 978-3-7913-4206-1