Photo by Spear Torres. Used with permission.

The name of Speer itself probably did not matter to the officials who chose him.

The realization of Speer Jr. s Olympic vision, and that of his patrons, marks the end of a welcome interlude.

Speer Jr. s commission was to lay out a master plan for the access to the Olympic complex in Beijing.

Instead of emphasizing his design s pomposity, the younger Speer insisted on its environmental friendliness.

People who were born digital , first appeared in a series of presentations by Josh Spear beginning in May 2007.

They sought to stage an Olympics that made manifest their image of themselves, and Speer Jr., looking back to his father s mastery of the architecture of power, delivered the goods.

While designing the master plan for the Beijing Games, Speer Jr., an acclaimed architect and town planner, also sought, like his father, to create a futuristic global metropolis.

In pockets, there appear what my colleague, Fred Spier, calls Goldilocks conditions not too hot, not too cold, just right for the creation of complexity.

As the Olympic torch relay itself a creation of the Nazis, first employed in the Berlin Games makes its way down Speer Jr. s avenue of power, the world will once again be made to witness a triumph of the totalitarian will.