Albert Speer (the younger)
Albert Speer (born
July 29,
1934 in
Berlin) is a
German architect and
urban planner. He is son of the architect and
Nazi Party official
Albert Speer. His grandfather
Albert Friedrich Speer and his great-grandfather were also architects.
He won his first international prize in
1964, and opened his own architect's 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
Büro Albert Speer & Partner in
Frankfurt am Main, which currently has more than 100 employees and is one of the biggest and most well-reputed architectural 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
Beijing Olympic complex.
*
Albert Speer & Partner, Planen und Bauen, Urbanism and Architecture, Paulhans Peters, Birkhäuser Zürich 1997, ISBN 3764352655
* http://www.as-p.de - Albert Speer & Partners -- official website
