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In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) redefined architecture's relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor, and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporaries and offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of the capitalist metropolis. Hilberseimer's Großstadtarchitektur is presented here for the first time in an English translation. Its propositions encourage us to reconsider mobility, concentration, and the scale of architectural intervention in our own era of urban expansion.
Price: $20.00
Pages: 368
Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Imprint: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Series: GSAPP Sourcebooks
Publication Date:
08 March 2014
Trim Size: 7.00 X 4.50 in
ISBN: 9781883584757
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays
Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) was a planner, architect, critic, and educator. During the 1920s, he developed theoretical projects for the city that remain influential today.
Richard Anderson is lecturer in architectural history at the University of Edinburgh. With Kristin Romberg, he is the author of Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919–1935.