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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 "Groszstadt-architektur" ("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.

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Book category Books in English The arts Architecture Theory of architecture

• Full title: Metropolisarchitecture
• Author: Ludwig Hilberseimer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9781883584757
• ISBN: 1883584752
• ID: 05160572
• Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
• Weight: 330 g
• Dimensions: 121 × 183 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. October 2012

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