visions of space - albert speer - part 1/7

Visions Of Space - 2003 - Albert Speer Size Matters part 1/7

Albert Speer was the architect of Hitler's grim vision.

First aired BBC4, 2003; ABC, 2004 In 'Visions of Space', Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi - whose work did so much to shape the modern world.
Hughes looks at how each one used space in different ways to express our response, respectively, to the power of religion (Gaudi), the power of the State (Speer), and the power of the corporation (Mies van der Rohe).

Albert Speer: Size Matters
In 1979 Robert Hughes met and interviewed Hitler's architect, Albert Speer, for his landmark series, Shock of the New. Speer died shortly afterwards. Twenty-three years later Hughes discovered the long lost tape of that unique conversation and was inspired to travel back to Germany to examine the legacy of a man who was, for a brief period, the most powerful architect in the world.

more about this documentary is here:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/
story/0,12084,885724,00.html

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[TheNameIsLegion]

This old guy my mom knows has a authentic German WWII Luger pistol and a letter in responce to a qestion from Albert Speer the Luger is about $35,000 lol

[vaughangarrick]

@Quinibus I am gay you addle-pated twit. What makes you think I'm illiterate and your use of english is not only incorrect but verbose and contrived. Ergo is a word used by hung up university students with no money for beer--

[Canadianloyalist123]

@fcgfgcfg that sir is a dangerous idea I hope o country will adopt. For the day we loose natinalism day we loose our pride.

[IamDayoldHate1]

Some faggots will argue about anything.

Case in point: vaughangarrick and Quinibus

[1337ontoast]

theres not much point even having a comments section on videos like this

[fcgfgcfg]

What Speer did for the Reich, Lutyen did for the British Raj, I don't find him a visionary in that sense. The idea of the State as superhuman expressed through architecture seems very primitive to me.The democratic modern world needs to rid the idea of the architecture and architect and re-establish them not as the ego of its people but their humility.We need to live in a world rid of walls.

[SuperBigschlong]

Albert Speer has some nice visions of architecture, his influence is even nowadays visible in some parts of germany though he was a fuckin NAZI :)

[vaughangarrick]

@Quinibus lol you're a funny little man

[Quinibus]

@vaughangarrick There's nothing at all "incorrect" about "ergo." Nothing. It's a word. It has uses. My use was appropriate. Get over it.

[Quinibus]

@vaughangarrick I tried to be nice. Now I'm going to be not so nice. Take your illiterate ass and go fuck yourself. I've you've got a problem with my argument, say so. If "ergo" is the most exotic word you've ever encountered, then don't bother commenting on *my* level of literacy. And if you've got some irrational hatred against the gays like the fellow up above, don't pathetically hide behind comments on my (correct) use of the English language

And if you can't do any of these, then fuck off.