Ludwig Hilberseimer
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Ludwig Hilberseimer

Reanimating Architecture and the City

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Ludwig Hilberseimer

Reanimating Architecture and the City

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Foreword to Ludwig Hilberseimer
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Note on Translation
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 The Individual
  12. 2 Hilberseimer’s Theory of Art
  13. 3 Organicism and Morphology
  14. 4 The Metropolis as an Organism
  15. 5 The Metropolis and the Work of Art
  16. 6 The City-Building-Art
  17. 7 Spiritualizing the Metropolis
  18. 8 Polarizing the Metropolis
  19. 9 The Fate of the Metropolis
  20. 10 Basso Continuo
  21. 11 Hilberseimer and Dada
  22. 12 The Equivalence of Art And Life
  23. 13 Metropolis-Building
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index
  27. Imprint