Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays

371 Pages·2013·11.182 MB·English

by  Ludwig Hilberseimer, Richard Anderson, Pier Vittorio Aureli

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Ludwig Hilberseimer
M etropolisarchitecture
and Selected Essays

Ludwig Hilberseimer
Metropolisarchitecture
and Selected Essays
Ed. Richard Anderson
A Columbia University GSAPP Sourcebook
Craig Buckley, Series Editor
In the same series:
John McHale, 77ie Expendable Reader: Articles on
Art, Architecture, Design, and Media (1951-79),
Ed. AIqx Kitnick
GSAPP SOURCEBOOKS
The last decades have witnessed a rapid expan­
sion of the field of architecture. If the con­
temporary panorama appears increasingly vast
and accelerated, it is simultaneously populated
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Columbia University GSAPP Sourcebooks se­
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GSAPP Sourcebooks Series 2
Editor: Richard Anderson
Series Editor: Craig Buckley
Graphic Design: Geoff Han
Translators: Metropolisarchitecture translated by Richard Anderson;
appendices translated by Julie Dawson
Copy Editor: Stephanie Salomon
Printed in Belgium by Die Keure
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hilberseimer, Ludwig.
[Works. Selections. English]
Metropolisarchitecture and selected essays / Ludwig Hilber­
seimer; ed. Richard Anderson.
pages cm.—(Columbia University GSAPP sourcebooks; 2)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-883584-75-7
1. Architecture, Modern—20th century. 2. City planning—
History—20th century. I. Anderson, Richard, 1980- editor of
compilation, translator. II. Aureli, Pier Vittorio, writer of added
commentary. III. Hilberseimer, Ludwig. Grossstadtarchitektur.
English. IV. Title.
NA680.H4513 2012
724’.6—dc23
Contents
9 Acknowledgments
12 Translators’Notes
Introduction
15 An End to Speculation
By Richard Anderson
M etropolisarchitecture
84 The Metropolis
91 Urban Planning
135 Residential Buildings
191 Commercial Buildings
201 High-rises
218 Halls and Theaters
231 Transportation Buildings
250 Industrial Buildings
261 Building Trades and the
Building Industry
264 Metropolisarchitecture
Selected Essays
282 The Will to Architecture
290 Proposal for City-Center Development
Visual Documents
306 Metropolisarchitecture
322 The Will to Architecture
326 Proposal for City-Center Development
Afterword
333 In Hilberseimer’s Footsteps
By Pier Vittorio Aureli
365 Contributors