AR.

LUDWIG KARL
HILBERSEIMER
 Born :14th
September 1885
in Karlsruhe,
Germany
Death : 6th
May1967
 LIFE
 Hilberseimer studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Technical
University from 1906 to 1910
 Later he worked in the architectural office Behrens and
Neumark.
Until 1914 was a coworker in the office of Heinz Lassen in
Bremen.
Later he led the planning office for Zeppelinhallenbau in Berlin.
 In 1919 he was member of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst and 
November Group, worked as independent architect and town
planner and published numerous theoretical writings over art,
architecture and town construction.
In 1929 Hilberseimer was hired by Hannes Meyer to teach at the
Bauhaus at Dessau, Germany.
 In 1938 he became the director of Chicago's city planning
office.
 WORK
Street hierarchy was first elaborated by Ludwig Hilberseimer
in his book City Plan during 1927
Hilberseimer emphasized safety for school-age children to
walk to school while increasing the speed of the vehicular
circulation system.
In 1929 at the Bauhaus, Hilberseimer developed studies
concerning town construction for the decentralization of large
cities. He developed a universal and global adaptable planning
system (The new town center, 1944).
 He planned a gradual dissolution of major cities and a
complete penetration of landscape and settlement. In order to
create a sustainable relationship between humans, industry, and
nature, human habitation should be built in a way to secure all
people against all disasters and crises.
His most notable built project is  Lafayette Park, Detroit, an
urban renewal project designed in cooperation with architect 
Mies van der Rohe and landscape architect  Alfred Caldwell.
 The urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer redefined
architecture's relationship to the city.
 His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor, and
circulation would be vertically integrated.
 He mainly had a radical approach to architecture and the
city in relationship with the role of welfare, infrastructure,
large-scale design of cities and the emergence and crisis of
20 th century forms of urbanization.
 HILBERSEIMER STATED ARCHITECTURE IN TWO
COMPONENTS AS
“ FORMS AND PROPORTIONS”
 This was further divided into four groups:-
• SYMBOLIC- The form expresses a significant
meaning.
• STRUCTURAL- The form is a result of an
structural system expression.
• REFINEMENT- The form is a result of an
optical sensitivities.
• DECORATIVE- The formalistic expression
without a concept.