Architect of Letters: Reading Hilberseimer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction
4. Architect of Letters: Reading Hilberseimer 7
5. City
6. Hilberseimer Reconsidered: Commitments and Continuities 19
7. The Red Bauhaus and CIAM: Contexts of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Teaching in the early 1930s 29
8. Through the Lens of Colonization: The New City as a Heritage of Modernism 43
9. Ludwig Hilberseimer, the Slum, and Urban Renewal in Chicago: From Großstadt to Fort Dearborn 55
10. Grid and Cell: Inhabiting Hilberseimer’s City 70
11. Housing
12. The Hilberseimer Model House for Kleine Kienheide in Dessau 83
13. Invention of a Metropolitan Architecture: From the Existing City to Collective Housing 99
14. Ludwig Hilberseimer, Le Corbusier, and the Employee 114
15. Housing as Infrastructure: Typological Studies of Ludwig Hilberseimer 132
16. Region
17. “A Framework for Life”: Hilberseimer’s Region and Vitalist Urban Theory 143
18. In Search of Order: Hilberseimer’s Visual Patterns 162
19. On the Diagrammatic Rationality of Hilberseimer’s Planning 178
20. Media
21. Hilberseimer and Creative Indifference 193
22. Elementary-Magical: Hilberseimer as Media Theorist 208
23. Structure as Infrastructure: The Interrelation of Fiber and Construction 222
24. Writing Architecture: On the Genesis of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s The New City 237
25. The (Almost) Invisible Man: Ludwig Hilberseimer and Germany after World War II 257
26. Visuals 273
27. Bibliography 315
28. Authors’ Biographies 329
29. Index 331
30. Image Credits 334