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Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays
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.
Architect of Letters
News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! LudwigHilberseimer (1885-1967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists ofthe Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Germany, and of modern, functionalurbanism. This set of accomplishments still dominates the public imageof the architect, urban planner, teacher and art critic to this day. Hisdevelopment beyond that period has long been neglected. Theessays in this collection seek to fill this gap, offering an excitingand wide-ranging new perspective on the work of a central protagonist ofmodernism. Until now, most critical studies of Hilberseimer's work camefrom his place of exile in Chicago and his work in Germany/Europe andthe USA tended to be viewed separately; this volume is the first toattempt to end this separation and encourage a complete overview of iswork. Previously unknown archival discoveries Withcontributions by Alexander Eisenschmidt, Magdalena Droste, ChristineMengin, Philipp Oswalt, Robin Schuldenfrei, Charles Waldheim and others
Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject
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
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.
Mies Van Der Rohe
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Dispersion
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Ludwig Hilberseimer
This book brings to light the work and influence of the German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer – a central figure of the Weimar Republic avant-garde, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modernist 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 post-war North America, this book argues that the time is now right f...
The New Regional Pattern
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 pl...
