Background
He is the son of Albert Speer (1905-1981) who was Adolf Hitler"s chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich during World World War World War II
architect university professor
He is the son of Albert Speer (1905-1981) who was Adolf Hitler"s chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich during World World War World War II
Albert Speer, Junior."s grandfather, Albert Friedrich Speer, was also an architect. He has had great international success, and has done a great deal of work in Saudi Arabia. In 1977 he became professor of urban planning at the University of Kaiserslautern.
His firm has had an office in Shanghai since 2001.
He was responsible for the design of Expo 2000 in Hanover, design of the Shanghai International Automobile City and the Central Axis in Beijing.