BETON ALS GESTALTER
BAUTEN IN EISENBETON UND IHRE ARCHITEKTONISCHE GESTALTUNG
Julius Vischer and Ludwig Hilberseimer
Julius Vischer and Ludwig Hilberseimer: BETON ALS GESTALTER [BAUTEN IN EISENBETON UND IHRE ARCHITEKTONISCHE GESTALTUNG]. Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1928 (Baubucher Band no. 5). First edition. Text in German. A good softcover book in stiff, plain cardboard wrappers covered by publishers dust jacket printed in two colors: text block corners chewed and worn and dust jacket spine mostly perished with multiple chips to edges -- a presentable copy ofthis unusual document. Former owners name on FEP, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 9 x 11.5 softcover book with 124 pages and 264 b/w plates and illustrations of the finest in modern concrete architecture (industrial buildings, market-halls, hangars, sports facilities, bridges, etc.), circa 1928 [Jager, 937; Sharp, 59]. Streamline Moderne, Art Deco and the rapidly emerging International Style are all well-represented in this scarce volume from the Baubucher Band series.
Includes work by Le Corbusier, Mart Stam, Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra, Otto Bartning, Adolf Meyer, Erich Mendelsohn, Ludwig mies van der Rohe, R. M. Schindler, Rietveld & Schroder, Bruno Taut, Max Berg, Jan Visek, Max Taut, Adolf Fischer, Limousin, Wilhelm Kreis, Perret Freres, and many other classic names from the heroic period of modern architecture.
Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer (1885 -1967) practiced and taught architecture and town planning at the Bauhaus Dessau and Berlin and at the Illinois Institutes of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. Hilberseimer assisted in the founding of "The Ring" with Hugo Haering, Mies van der Rohe and others in 1928. He was appointed by Hannes Meyer to the Bauhaus Dessau in 1929. Hilberseimer followed the Bauhaus and Mies to Berlin in 1930 and then in the diaspora of 1938, followed Mies to Chicago to the Armour Institutes of Technology (IIT). He taught town construction and regional planning at IIT until his death in 1967.
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