Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer
American, born Germany, 1885-1967
Highrise City (Hochhausstadt): Perspective View: North-South Street
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Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer
American, born Germany, 1885-19671924
Highrise City (Hochhausstadt): Perspective View: North-South Street
Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer American, born Germany, 1885-1967 →20th Centurypresentation drawingarchitectural drawing
Date
1924
Medium
Ink and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Approx: 97.3 × 140 cm (38 5/16 × 55 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of George E. Danforth
One of the central components of architect and planner Ludwig Hilberseimer’s treatise on urban planning of 1924 was a vertically integrated high-rise city where residents would live and work in one seamless unit, traveling up to apartments and down to factories in elevators. These drawings underscore the impersonal nature of Hilberseimer’s imagined society, removed from all identifying markers of history or geography. Although Hilberseimer would later renounce this project, the images remain as powerful expressions of modern architects’ preoccupation with functionalist models for urban society.
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