Speer's architectural genius
Long ago, I read Speer's autobiography. Not surprising that he claimed to have had reservations and been "coerced"...keep a huge shaker of salt handy. Interesting despite the spin.
But then
I agree that Speer was an architectural genius.
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But I've also seen photos of a mockup of a building he was planning for Goering that looked like it would have become a massive, oppressive weight on the face of the earth.
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I always got the impression it wasn't Speer's doing
Just idle speculation, but maybe if Speer was such an architectural genius, we might give him credit for deliberately coming up with ugly designs, especially those that communicate a bit of editorializing: "massive, oppressive" are two words that sum up Goering to a T. Maybe Speer knew what he was doing?