Translate: Ludwig Hilberseimer's Metropolisarchitecture

Translate: GSAPP Books presents Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays Richard Anderson, Columbia University Art History and Archaeology Pier Vittorio Aureli, Architectural Association Craig Buckley, Columbia University GSAPP Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan 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 Groszstadtarchitektur (Metropolisarchitecture) is presented here for the first time in English translation. Two additional essays frame this international cross-section of metropolitan architecture: “Der Wille zur Architektur” (The Will to Architecture) and “Vorschlag zur City-Bebauung” (Proposal for City-Building). The propositions assembled here encourage us to reconsider mobility, concentration and the scale of architectural intervention in our own era of urban expansion. This is the second title in the GSAPP Sourcebooks series, devoted to recovering and translating overlooked texts on architecture and the city. Books available at the event by GSAPP Books Free and open to the public http://events.gsapp.org/event/translate-ludwig-hilberseimer%E2%80%99s-metropolisarchitecture