Publications

Joachim Bothe, coordinator of AS&P’s urban land use planning department, is a member of the interdisciplinary team of authors, who has, using his wide-ranging practical experience, edited central urban land use planning paragraphs § 5 und § 9 of the BauGB (building code of law), providing numerous examples and practice-related advice. BauGB regulations are assessed according to their practical significance and edited while having regard for contiguous legal reports (environmental law, law for emission control, etc.).

In times of a quickly shrinking domestic market, many architects turn to overseas markets. This is reason enough to observe architecture more closely as an export product.

The Master Plan, developed by the office of AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner presents concrete proposals for the short, middle and long term redesign of downtown Cologne. As many citizens took part in the planning process, it was important to the client that the results of the master plan were available to the general public.

The master plan for downtown Cologne was presented to the city by the office of AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner GmbH in November 2008. The planned goals of the master plan now have to be implemented. Cologne’s responsible parties are doing so in innovative ways, an example is the establishment of a control group. Michael Heller from AS&P reports…

For more than forty years, Albert Speer & Partners have been designing ecologically sensitive communities throughout the globe. Many of their trailblazing projects are discussed in this compelling and timely look at what has been accomplished in an effort to satisfy the array of social, economic, and environmental demands of the twenty-first century. The authors explore themes of redeveloping aging cities, resource conservation, urban density, zoning, and new technology. Focusing on projects in cities as wide-ranging as Shanghai, Baku, Cairo, Changchun, and Frankfurt, the book includes plans, renderings, drawings, and photographs of the sites. A model of innovative thinking and practice, the firm is shown most importantly as embracing.

Prof. Albert Speer discussing architecture and urban planning – a strong Metaphore.

"In order to enable trend-setting projects with model character to be realized, national urban development policy should concentrate on few focal points in great detail. The ways in which we conceive and handle planning need to become much more interdisciplinary which will facilitate the development of systems promoting urban innovation."

Article by AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner GmbH: Authors Gerhard Brand and Axel Bienhaus discuss “cost control and search for optimizing potentials using the Reference-Area Method.

Gerhard Brand from AS&P –Albert Speer & Partner GmbH serves as a jury member for project selection

Article by AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner GmbH: „Deutsche Architektur – Ein Exportschlager?“ Axel Bienhaus discusses European architecture abroad. 
Projects by AS&P : Administration Center Zhang Jiang Hi-Tech Park, Shanghai; Anting New Town, Residential Development Shanghai, V.R. China; Criminal Court Complex Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Ministry of Water and Electricity Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Contribution by AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner GmbH:
Concept for the central axis in Beijing; Garden City Foshan Sahshui, Guangzhou; International Automobile City / Anting New Town, Shanghai-Anting; Administration Building in Zhang Jiang Hi-Tech Park, Shanghai; Fudan University, Shanghai.

Shanghai makes all other cities in the world look old. Nowhere else does development occur so quickly and audaciously, nowhere else have you described yourself in the superlative so quickly. This book is an in-depth portrait of Shanghai, which illustrates that the history of the people living in this unique global city contributes, first and foremost, to its myths. Contributions by AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner GmbH: Interview with Prof. Albert Speer about the projects in China and the future of Shanghai.

This incisive look at the historical, social and economic forces that have shaped China's modern architecture analyses the country's struggle to define its own architectural aesthetics.
Projects by AS&P: Central Axis Masterplan, Beijing; EXPO 2010 Masterplan, Shanghai; Interconfessional Prayer Hall, Zhang Jiang Hi-Tech Park, Shanghai-Pudong; Anting International Automobile City and New Town, Shanghai-Anting

Projects by AS&P - Albert Speer & Partner GmbH: BMW Second-Hand Car Sales Centre, Dreieich; The Oval at Baseler Platz, Frankfurt/ Main; Baseler Arkades, Frankfurt/ Main; Victoria-Turm, Mannheim

Projects by AS&P - Albert Speer & Partner GmbH: Masterplan for the Olympic Games 2012

publication of all 71 competition entries for the new premises of the European Central Bank

Albert Speer, Johannes Dell: A German City in China. The model city of Anting is the attempt to introduce coordinated and sustainable development practice into the maelstrom of rapid and gigantic development projects which Shanghai currently faces. It serves to illustrate methods and approaches for dynamic development based on local traditions and experiences in Europe. The key task is to achieve the goal-oriented implementation of sustainable urban development.

Documentation of the works of B+G Bollinger + Grohmann Engineers in cooperation with architects. Projects with AS&P - Albert Speer & Partner: Fair Hall 12, Hanover; ZDF-Fernsehgarten (German TV open-air broadcasting stage), Mainz; Millennium Tower, Frankfurt/ Main; Extension of the Hamburg Fair; Oval at Baseler Platz, Frankfurt/ Main

Contributions by AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner GmbH: Shanghai Anting New Town

Architecture, Interiors, Details
Projects by AS&P - Albert Speer & Partner GmbH: Oval and Arkades at Baseler Platz, Frankfurt/ Main; Victoria-Tower, Mannheim

Documentation of the lecture of Prof. Albert Speer held at the UIA Conference in Berlin 2002: Resource Architecture, XXI. Architecture-World Congress, Tuesday July 23rd 2002

Albert Speer – The Intelligent City in the 21st Century... the world
networked via electronic media... supplements and expands reality
and provides unforeseen opportunities.

Analysis of the urban development of Beijing; postulation of
five theories on the future of urban development in China:
decentralized concentrations as an urban development tool; the
“landscape in the inner city” as compensation for high densities;
reinforcing public transport; infrastructure networks as a prerequisite
of sustainable urban development; close cooperation
between municipal and private organizations.

Once Hannover had been chosen as the host of the Expo 2000
it became necessary to restructure and to substantially enlarge
the fairgrounds from 90ha to 160ha. In 1994 the Swiss firm
Arnaboldi Cavadini won the urban design competition. In order
to compile the Master Plan a working partnership was formed
with AS&P and Kienast, Vogt and Partner. Albert Speer speaks
of the Expo Hannover as an “urban expo”, an enduring urban
site with public squares and parks which incorporates the old fairgrounds.
Included in the planning task over the next few years
is the integration of the adjoining residential areas, Bemerode
to the north, Kronsberg to the east and Laatzen to the south. In
regard to access it was essential that a new urban rail line and a
new fairground train station Laatzen be simultaneously built.

Published works, built examples and the expression of his views.
Albert Speer’s and his firm’s main focus is on questions dealing
with urban development, e.g. in Frankfurt am Main, the
development of rural areas and planning and development
in the Third World. Urban development framework studies,
competition entries, planning for national capital cities.

Albert Speer & Partner is one of the few German architectural
offices to enjoy long-standing international renown. In over thirty
years, the office developed such large-scale projects as the
Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh for the new capital of Saudi Arabia
or the large government buildings in Abuja, the newly laid-out
Nigerian capital. The preconception of Frankfurt as a modern
finance and service metropolis and as a representative cultural
location was also largely determined by the planning of AS&P.
And of increasing importance are urban planning and architectural
design projects for extensive abandoned industrial and
military sites, especially in East Germany. Linking architecture
and urban planning is typical of AS&P´s work. This unusual, comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to planning enables
integrative solutions, effective in the long term and oriented on
urban reality.
In this respect Peter Eisenman once said about Albert Speer: “His
projects are a mark of social concern. His writings on urban form
are a plea for sanity and reason. And his teaching develop the
idea of community at a scale which is neither nostalgic for an
unlived past nor for an impossible future.“ (Architecture and
Urbanism, 7/1994)
This first comprehensive book publication on AS&P documents
about forty mostly recent and very diverse projects and demonstrates
the office’s special planning methodology.

This book provides an overview of the Frankfurt architect and
urban planner, Albert Speer’s urban development visions, plans
and projects for the city of Frankfurt am Main over the last thirty
years and presents them in the context of the urban and regional
development of the city.

Albert Speer & Partner. Sanierung Haus Rabe von Adolf Rading, bei Leipzig.

Urban Planning Process. 18 Works, description of various projects.
Criticism: Peter Eisenmann “Aspirating/Aspeerating”.

Albert Speer & Partner. Office and residential complex Solmstraße,
Frankfurt am Main.

The political, communal and social changes in Europe and German
Reunification place higher demands on our non-renewable environments.
This challenge can only be met by using our resources in an
intelligent manner. Innovative strategies and plans for the future of
our cities are fundamental in this regard. The successful urban planner,
Albert Speer describes predicaments and innovative solutions using
examples from major metro areas and major cities in Western and
Eastern Germany.

Presentation and documentation of the most important competitions
and studies from the years 1990/91.