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NAZI ARCHITECTURE

Characteristics

  • Used pillars, columns, pilasters, porticoes, arches, pediments, and clean lines for a new aesthetic
  • Used materials like rock to show the lasting Thousand Year Reich
  • No decorations
  • Symmetry

Inspiration

  • Inspired by ancient Rome and Greece

Roman

Greek

Nazi

Hitler as an

architect

  • Hitler wanted to be an architect
  • Met Albert Speer
  • Speer became in charge of Architecture

"Hitler quite often told me: 'You are fulfilling my dream. I would like to have been an architect. Fate made me the bildhauer Deutschlands, the sculptor of Germany. I would have liked to be Germany's architect. But I can't: you are. Even when I am dead you will go on, and I give you all my authority so that even after I am dead you will continue.' "

-Albert Speer

Design Reasons/Meanings

  • Berlin to become Germania, would need monuments
  • Buildings meant to intimidate and overwhelm visitors
  • Needed to exude power and domination
  • Shows off the wealth of the Third Reich
  • Represented the strength and authority of Nazism

Nazi Architecture

  • Most artistic form of propaganda
  • Became a tool of the state
  • Promote nazi ideology

Chancellery Building

  • Nerve center of Nazi Regime
  • Archetypal building of Nazi Architecture
  • Awe-inspiring entrance to the seat of Nazi power
  • Speer's design focuses on line
  • Everything is totally controlled and ordered
  • Inside included sense of grandeur
  • Contained Ehrenplatz, or court of honor

Mass Experiences

  • Created places for "Mass Experiences"
  • Most significant: Zeppelin Field
  • Centerpiece was Zeppelintribune
  • Gave speeches to giant masses
  • Used Lichtdom around the building

“I had only the aim to impose the grandeur of the building upon the people who are in it. If people who may have different minds are pressed together in such surroundings, they all get unified to one mind. That is really all."

-Albert Speer

Significance

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