Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays

Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays
Author: . Hilberseimer
Publisher: GSAPP Sourcebooks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781883584757

In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer redefined architecture's relationship to the city. His 'Grossstadtarchitektur' is presented here for the first time in English, with two additional essays.

Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject

Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject
Author: K. Michael Hays
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1995
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262581417

Drawing on both the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer, and more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Challenging much of the traditional wisdom about modernism and the avant-garde, Hays argues that a rigorously articulated "posthumanist" position was actually developed in the modernist architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. He reinterprets their buildings, projects, and writings as constructions of this new category of subjectivity.

The Mereological City

The Mereological City
Author: Daniel Köhler
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3839434661

In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition. The resonance of parts unfolds to an alternative of a purely contrasting equation of form and content. It reminds us, that when the ground (gr.: logos) of the city is defined by its parts (gr.: meros), its architecture, the city in turn always also is part of the architecture as its desire. »The Mereological City« introduces a mereological methodology and contributes to an ongoing discussion about an ecological form of urban design.

In the Shadow of Mies

In the Shadow of Mies
Author: Richard Pommer
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1988
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Dispersion

Dispersion
Author: Diego Barajas
Publisher: episode publishers
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture and globalization
ISBN: 9789059730021

Ludwig Hilberseimer

Ludwig Hilberseimer
Author: Scott Colman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2023-07-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1350068039

The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Hilberseimer's legacy as a whole has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by Mies, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and postwar North America, this book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer's work and writings. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this study clarifies and situates Hilberseimer's ideas both as an architect and writer, and examines their influence on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism. The first synthetic account of Hilberseimer in English, it provides a contextual account of Hilberseimer's works which have until now been subject to fragmentary or highly specialized interpretations. By demonstrating the influence of Hilberseimer's ideas on the architecture of Mies van der Rohe, the book also lends Mies's work a newfound urban significance.

The New Regional Pattern

The New Regional Pattern
Author: Ludwig Hilberseimer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1949
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

In this new book-a companion volume to his THE NEW CITY (now out of print)-the author demonstrates again the soundness and practicability of his planning theories. But here he is dealing with, and applying these planning-principles on a large scale, reaching far beyond the city's boundaries into adjacent regions, integrating agriculture and industry and merging vast territory into an organic self sufficient entity. And here the author brings together an immense amount of heretofore unavailable information on this vital phase of planning. He unfolds a grand plan for better living, treating the whole complex subject as a major social, economic and political problem. The benefits of regional planning are many. Guided by an unselfish spirit it can restore order in the present chaos and regenerate the life of the people. A planned integration of agriculture and industry can bring our economic life into a sound and stable balance. By an organic development of the environment, toward the establishment of the good life, regional planning can create the condition to help us preserve our resources and our very life. In the present volume a good part is given to historical consideration together with facts, ways and means of achieving this task of regional planning. No utopian dreamer, Hilberseimer's plans are entirely feasible and his book should be read by many peoples of diverse professions. -- from dust jacket.

Architect of Letters

Architect of Letters
Author: Florian Strob
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-11-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035624860

News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Germany, and of modern, functional urbanism. This set of accomplishments still dominates the public image of the architect, urban planner, teacher and art critic to this day. His development beyond that period has long been neglected. The essays in this collection seek to fill this gap, offering an exciting and wide-ranging new perspective on the work of a central protagonist of modernism. Until now, most critical studies of Hilberseimer's work came from his place of exile in Chicago and his work in Germany/Europe and the USA tended to be viewed separately; this volume is the first to attempt to end this separation and encourage a complete overview of is work. Previously unknown archival discoveries With contributions by Alexander Eisenschmidt, Magdalena Droste, Christine Mengin, Philipp Oswalt, Robin Schuldenfrei, Charles Waldheim and others