The Goethe-Institut New York is proud to present an evening with noted architect Albert Speer Jr. as the next event in What Is Green Architecture?, a series of conversations, lectures, and events exploring the cutting-edge developments in the field and their impact on contemporary life as well as their implications for the future. Albert Speer’s talk will be followed by a discussion moderated by Andres Lepik.
Albert Speer Jr. works on national and international projects that are focused on the reorganization of large cities as human and social environments. His lecture will contrast cities in Europe and Asia to those in the U.S. as well as describe important categories for sustainability. Albert Speer Jr. is active as an urban planner and architect in Frankfurt from 1964 onwards, including work on various international projects. In 1966, he won the DEUBA Prize (German Architecture Prize for Young Architects) and two years later was awarded his first contract in a foreign country for urban and regional planning for West Tripoli, Libya. From 1972 to 1997, he held the Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Albert Speer has been guest professor at the Technical University of Zurich, Switzerland, and was a member of the design advisory board and in charge of the master plan for EXPO 2000 in Hanover. He founded AS&P (Albert Speer & Partners / http://www.as-p.de) in 1964.
What Is Green Architecture? series curator Dr. Andres Lepik studied art history and German literature at universities in Augsburg and Munich, earning his Ph. D. in Rome on Architectural Models in the Renaissance. He has curated noted architecture exhibitions, including solo shows highlighting the work of Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, and Oswald Mathias Ungers at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and the German venue for The Museum of Modern Art’s Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Die Berliner Jahre 1907-1938 at Altes Museum. He is currently Curator in the Architecture & Design Department of The Museum of Modern Art, as well as author of Skyscrapers.
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