HELLO LUDWIG & CORBU
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Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer (1885-1967) was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Mies van der Rohe. Hilberseimer fled Germany in 1938 for Chicago to work for Mies, and became director of Chicago's city planning office.
Adrian Forty is Professor at The Bartlett, University College London, on the 17th February 2006 he lectured at the RCA (The City Without Qualities) and argued for the existence of an architecture without 'markers'."Landmark architecture has been talked about a lot recently - and has been reacted against too. But what would a city without 'landmarks' be like? One strand of late nineteenth and early twentieth century thinking about cities - explored in this talk - argued that what made a city habitable for a modern person was precisely its lack of distinctive features. Does this 'city without qualities' have a future?". Perhaps the city as a grid...(merci Archizoom)
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Hilberseimer, The Vertical City (1924)
Hilberseimer, The Vertical City, perspective view E-W (1924)
Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin, city planning, Paris (1925-27)
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, La Cité-Refuge, Paris (1930)
Archizoom, No Stop City, (1968)
Julien Penven, Jean-Claude Le Bail, Front de Seine, Hotel Nikko, Paris (1976)
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Modernism and the Postmodernist Subject, The Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer (K. Michael Hays, MIT press, 1992)
Towards a New Architecture (Le Corbusier)
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-Cité� de Refuge, 12 rue Cantagruel 75013 Paris
-Le Front de Seine, 75015 Paris