LUDWIG HILBERSEIMER | Ute Poerschke & Kevin Harrington

The last episode of 2025 is here! And it's about Ludwig Hilberseimer. Never heard of him? No problem! bauhaus faces will help you out.

Only few of the houses Hilberseimer planned were built. He was much more concerned about the bigger picture: How does the modern city, especially the metropolis, need to be organized to meet people's needs? His futuristic-looking draft of a Highrise City from 1924 with floating bridge pavements high above the streets, skyscrapers as apartment buildings, and a plant-less, sterile surrounding was certainly a real shocker. A "necropolis" rather than a metropolis. That high-rise apartment buildings would soon become reality, only a few of his contemporaries of the 1920s believed.

With the help of the architectural historians Ute Poerschke and Kevin Harrington we will shine a light on Ludwig Hilberseimer.

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LITERATURE BY LUDWIG HILBERSEIMER Ludwig Hilberseimer: Grossstadtbauten, 1926 Behrens, Peter & Deutscher Werkbund (Ed.): Bau und Wohnung: die Bauten der Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart errichtet 1927 nach Vorschlägen des Deutschen Werkbundes im Auftrag der Stadt Stuttgart und im Rahmen der Werkbundausstellung "Die Wohnung" — Stuttgart, 1927

LITERATURE ABOUT LUDWIG HILBERSEIMER Ute Poerschke: "Bauhaus architecture and daylight studies," 2024 Kevin Harrington: "Ideas in action: Hilberseimer and the redevelopment of the South Side of Chicago," in: Richard Pommer, David A. Spaeth & Kevin Harrington (eds.): In the shadow of Mies: Ludwig Hilberseimer, architect, educator, and urban planner, Chicago: Art Institute & Rizzoli, 1988 Florian Strob (ed.): Architect of Letters. Reading Hilberseimer, 2022 Ludwig Hilberseimer: Die neue Stadt. Prinzipien der Planung, Kommentierte Ausgabe, 2023

ARCHITECTURE BY LUDWIG HILBERSEIMER https://www.bildindex.de/

FILM "Das wachsende Haus" (The growing house), 2020

PODCAST EPISODES Otti Berger with Judit Raum, 2024 Mies van der Rohe PART 1 with Wita Noack & Fritz Neumeyer Mies van der Rohe PART 2 with Aya Soika

CHAPTER IMAGES 1/2 Portrait of Ludwig Hilberseimer, https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/urbanism-bauhaus-ludwig-hilberseimer 3 Ludwig Hilberseimer: Highrise City (Hochhausstadt), 1924, https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/urbanism-bauhaus-ludwig-hilberseimer 4 Ludwig Hilberseimer & Heinrich Kosina; Rheinlandhaus, 1927, destroyed in 1966, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg / unknown photographer, c. 1920/1939?, Fotokonvolut: Archiv Dr. Franz Stoedtner, CC BY-SA 4.0 Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International 5 House by Ludwig Hilberseimer at the Weißenhof estate, 1927, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg / Foto: Lossen, Otto; Aufn.-Datum: um 1920/1939?; Fotokonvolut: Archiv Dr. Franz Stoedtner, CC BY-SA 4.0 Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International 6 Ludwig Hilberseimer: Plan for Dessau-Törten, 1930, https://archplus.net/de/das-wachsende-bauhaus-geht-auf-wanderschaft/ 7 Ludwig Hilberseimer: The growing house (das wachsende Haus), 1932, https://archplus.net/de/das-wachsende-bauhaus-geht-auf-wanderschaft/ 8 Hannes Meyer & Hans Wittwer: Competition for the ADGB Trade Union School with solar studies on the side, 1928, https://www.bauhaus-denkmal-bernau.de/bundesschule/ludwig-hilberseimer.html 9 Ludwig Hilberseimer and Mies van der Rohe, 1940, https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/urbanism-bauhaus-ludwig-hilberseimer 10 Portrait of Walter Peterhans, photo by Heinrich Koch, no date, https://deu.archinform.net/arch/48400.htm 11 Photograph of Ludwig Hilberseimer and faculty and student members of the Illinois Institute of Technology architecture program, photo by George W. Larson, ca. 1940/41 12 Mies, Hilberseimer & Caldwell: Plan for Lafayette Park, Detroit, 1956, https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Figura-37-Planta-de-Lafayette-Park-Detroit-Mies-Hilberseimer-y-Caldwell-1956-Figurefig11310834479 13 Portrait of Ludwig Hilberseimer, n.d., https://repository.iit.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A15142