In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967)
redefined architecture's relationship to the city. His proposal for
a high-rise city, where leisure, labor and circulation would be
vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporaries and
offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of the capitalist
metropolis. Hilberseimer's "Groszstadt-architektur"
("Metropolisarchitecture") is presented here for the first time in
English translation. Two additional essays frame this international
cross-section of metropolitan architecture: "Der Wille zur
Architektur" (The Will to Architecture) and "Vorschlag zur
City-Bebauung" (Proposal for City-Building). The propositions
assembled here encourage us to reconsider mobility, concentration
and the scale of architectural intervention in our own era of urban
expansion. This is the second title in the "GSAPP Sourcebooks"
series, devoted to recovering and translating overlooked texts on
architecture and the city.
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