Albert Speer (the younger)

Albert Speer (born July 29, 1934 in Berlin) is a famous German architect and urban planner. He is son of the architect and Nazi Party official Albert Speer. Also his grandfather Albert Friedrich Speer and his great-grandfather were architects.

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July 29 - 1934 - Berlin - Architect - Urban planner - Albert Speer - Albert Friedrich Speer

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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.

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1964 - 1977 - Urban planning - Kaiserslautern

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In 1984 he founded the company Büro Albert Speer & Partner in Frankfurt am Main, which currently has more than 100 employees and is one the biggest and most well-reputed architectural and urban planning companies in Germany.

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1984 - Büro Albert Speer & Partner - Frankfurt am Main

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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 Bejing Olympic complex.

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Expo 2000 - World exposition - Hanover - Shanghai

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In 2003 he received the Goethe Prize of his home town Frankfurt.

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