Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City

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Scott Colman (Rice School of Architecture, USA) Janina Gosseye (Eth Zurich Switzerland)

Ludwig Hilberseimer

Reanimating Architecture and the City

Scott Colman (Rice School of Architecture, USA), Janina Gosseye (Eth Zurich Switzerland), Tom Avermaete (Eth Zurich Switzerland)

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
19 October 2023

Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture

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.

By: Scott Colman (Rice School of Architecture USA)
Edited by: Janina Gosseye (Eth Zurich Switzerland), Tom Avermaete (Eth Zurich Switzerland)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350068025
ISBN 10: 1350068020
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translation List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Individual 2. Hilberseimer's Theory of Art 3. Organicism and Morphology 4. The Metropolis as an Organism 5. The Metropolis and the Work of Art 6. The City-Building-Art 7. Spiritualizing the Metropolis 8. Polarizing the Metropolis 9. The Fate of the Metropolis 10. Basso Continuo 11. Hilberseimer and Dada 12. The Equivalence of Art and Life 13. Metropolis-Building Bibliography Index

Scott Colman is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Rice University, USA

Reviews for Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City

Scott Colman’s excellent new book Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City contributes fundamentally to our renewed appreciation of the often-misunderstood German émigré architect. The book offers the definitive English-language account of Hilberseimer’s intellectual formation, cultural commitments, and urban aspirations. * Charles Waldheim, Harvard University, USA * This insightful book is a vital contribution to our understanding of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s impact on modern architecture and urbanism. It presents a fresh and nuanced appraisal of this extraordinary designer’s modernism and its larger cultural relevance in the twentieth century. * Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK and author of Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930-1960 *