(Mannheim, 1905 - London, 1981)
Monuments molt: they change skin, change image, and change meaning. As living heritage, they renew their renders and their walls, transform their outer appearance, and modify their symbolic content; and as vulnerable heritage, they experience decaden
The huge hill made of Berlin debris conceals the remains of what was a Nazi military academy, denying it the grand heroic status of a monumental ruin.
Everyday life in Nazi Germany and the interiors designed by Gerdy Troost for Hitler are in stark contrast with the monumental works of Albert Speer.
The question poses a whole moral dilemma: “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Léon Krier says yes: that Albert Speer was guilty of the Nazi horror, and was also a magnificent architect. To demonstrate that he was a magnificent architect, Krier pu
The column of smoke of 9/11, which ghostly evoked the memory of the skyscrapers, was soon followed by the project to raise two towers of light – carried out with searchlights pointing skywards six months after the attack – without paying much attenti