Highrise City (Hochhausstadt): Perspective View: North-South Street
Date:
1924
Artist:
Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer American, born Germany, 1885-1967
About this artwork
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.
Highrise City (Hochhausstadt): Perspective View: North-South Street
Place
Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date
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Signed and dated at bottom right, "L. Hilberseimer 24."
Dimensions
Approx: 97.3 × 140 cm (38 5/16 × 55 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George E. Danforth
Reference Number
1983.992
Extended information about this artwork
Published: Die Form. 1926. p. 174.
Published: Groszstadtarchitektur, p. 18, illus. 23.
Published: Mies Reconsidered: His Career, Legacy, and Disciples.
Published: 27 Rassegna, p. 35, illus. 15.
Published: In the Shadow of Mies, Ludwig Hilberseimer : Architect, Educator, and Urban Planner. 1988, front cover.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Past Forward: Architecture and Design Collection at the Art Institute,” September 12, 2017 – January 21, 2018.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, “Drawing the Future: Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900-1925,” April 19 - August 11, 2013.
AIC, “Selections from the Permanent Collection,” May 16, 2009 - February 28, 2010.
SOD1293 - Ausstellungsb°ro, Berlin, Germany for exhibit:”Stadt der Architektur - Architektur der Stadt” to be held at Neues Museum, Berlin, from 23 June 2000 - 3 September 2000.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: “At the End of the Century: 100 Years of Architecture” MCA, Chciago: 12/18/99 - 3/12/2000
AIC and traveling exhibit, 1986-1987: “The Unknown Mies van der Rohe and His Disciples of Modernism”, cat. no. 6.
Loan exhibition, Kolnischer Kunstverein, 1988: “bauhaus utopien Aarbeiten auf papier”.
Loan exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1994: “Visions Urbaines, LaVille 1870-1990”.
SOC8561 12/20/1993 - Centre de Creation Industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou, for exhibit, “LaVille 1870 - 1990”, 2/9 - 5/9/1993.
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