SPRINGTIME FOR SPEER

摘要

I was the beneficiary of many professorial dressings-down during architecture school. The one I probably deserved most (and I did deserve most of them) was for citing, as precedent for a colonnaded columbarium project, the grandstand that Nazi architect Albert Speer built on the Nuremberg parade grounds, because it too had rows of columns. I pinned a picture of it on the jury-room wall, alongside a plan of the Stoa of Attalos and my smudgy pencil-on-vellum renderings. The instructor was quick to reprimand me for my naivete about the relationship between design and ethics.