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Danforth Reference Number 1983.992 Extended information about this artwork

Status Currently Off View Department Architecture and Design Artist Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer (Architect) Title Highrise City (Hochhausstadt): Perspective View: North-South Street Place Germany (Artist's nationality) Date 1924 Medium Ink and watercolor on paper Inscriptions Signed and dated at bottom right, 'L. Although Hilberseimer would later renounce this project, the images remain as powerful expressions of modern architects’ preoccupation with functionalist models for urban society.

These drawings underscore the impersonal nature of Hilberseimer’s imagined society, removed from all identifying markers of history or geography. 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.

Hilberseimer project for highrise city