Architects in Power Politics and Ideology in the Work of Ernst May and Albert Speer
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Architects in Power: Politics and Ideology in the Work of Ernst May and Albert Speer Author(s): Barbara Miller Lane Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 17, No. 1, The Evidence of Art: Images and Meaning in History (Summer, 1986), pp. 283-310 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/204134 . Accessed: 05/04/2012 16:50
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xvii:i
(Summer i986),
283-3 IO.
Barbara Miller Lane
Architects in Power: Politics and Ideology in the Work of Ernst May and Albert Speer This article has a twofold purpose. First, by comparing some aspects of the lives and works of Ernst May and Albert Speer, it illuminates the special experience of architects in power in the twentieth century. Throughout history, architects have had a greater need for wealthy patrons than have other artists because of the great expense of buildings. And government buildings, because of their size and visibility, have always been the most attractive of commissions. Thus, architects have always been involved to some extent in politics, and have nearly
Architects in Power: Politics and Ideology in the Work of Ernst May and Albert Speer Author(s): Barbara Miller Lane Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 17, No. 1, The Evidence of Art: Images and Meaning in History (Summer, 1986), pp. 283-310 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/204134 . Accessed: 05/04/2012 16:50
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xvii:i
(Summer i986),
283-3 IO.
Barbara Miller Lane
Architects in Power: Politics and Ideology in the Work of Ernst May and Albert Speer This article has a twofold purpose. First, by comparing some aspects of the lives and works of Ernst May and Albert Speer, it illuminates the special experience of architects in power in the twentieth century. Throughout history, architects have had a greater need for wealthy patrons than have other artists because of the great expense of buildings. And government buildings, because of their size and visibility, have always been the most attractive of commissions. Thus, architects have always been involved to some extent in politics, and have nearly