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...Inside the Third Reich, Speer...
...Inside the Third Reich, Speer...
...Inside the Third Reich, Speer...
...grandiosity of his architectural fantasy belongs to a whole tradition of visionary architecture, which encompasses idealist architects like the 18th century Frenchmen Boullée and Ledoux as well as the great Italian engraver Piranesi, who saw grandeur in prisons, glory in ruins. (In his memoir, Inside the Third Reich, Speer notes that Hitler took into account how his edifices might look as ruins a thousand years later.) And a debased 18th century neoclassicism, in fact, has long been the universal language of political power from Leningrad to Paris-and even Washington...
...Inside the Third Reich, Speer...