Ruin Value Theory
The ruin value theory is a term coined by the architect Albert Speer .
Speer described the ruin theory for the first time in 1969: "The use of special materials and the consideration of special static considerations should enable buildings that, in a state of decay, after hundreds or (as we calculated) thousands of years, would resemble the Roman models."
Although Speer did not use the term for the first time until 1969, the ruin value theory is often understood as a principle underlying architecture under National Socialism , which when building a building also included its worthy decay. However, this construction principle was never mentioned in contemporary texts, so that today it is considered a subsequent attribution.
literature
- Angela Schönberger: The state buildings of the Millennial Reich as preprogrammed ruins? On Albert Speer's theory of ruins. In: Idea 6, 1987, pp. 97-107.
- Hans-Ernst Mittig : Durability, once a monumental argument. In: Mo (nu) mente: Forms and functions of ephemeral monuments. Weinheim, 1993, pp. 11-34.
- Isabel Kranz: The Ruins of the Future. (Mis) archeology and national self-image with Alfred Franklin, Léo Claretie and Albert Speer. In: Goofy History. Mistakes make history. Edited by Butis Butis. Weimar, Böhlau, 2009: pp. 107–129.