Jakarta Gothic (or, "How Long was My Column...")

September 9, 2003

John Byrne
Cultural observer.

 

ONE of the less savoury individuals around during the time of the Third Reich would have had to be Albert Speer. An architect, he was responsible for some of the grosser and more disturbing physical manifestations of the Nazis-Nuremberg stadium comes to mind. Notable in his designs were the use of a Roman imperial style that lent an aura of absolutism and authority to structures.

It would be drawing a long


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