Some of them, including Ludwig Hilberseimers terraced house, were ready for construction. The so-called L-type was intended for realization on the test site in Kleine Kienheide. The model house has now been reconstructed in drawings for the first time and compared with its predecessors and derivatives. However, it was well developed, as evidenced by designs by students and teachers in the Building Department. Thus, the complementary low-rise development in the form envisioned by the Bauhaus remained on paper.

The mixed construction method of multi-storey and low-rise buildings propagated by him was implemented here for the first time, although not completely. The extension of the Dessau-Törten Housing Estate planned for 1930 bears the signature of Ludwig Hilberseimer. The lecture aims to trace the importance of the hall in Hilberseimer’s thinking, from his 1914 project of a Markthalle to its integration in the City-Bebauung urban utopia in 1930.Ī Generic Low-Rise – the Hilberseimer Model House for Kleine Kienheide

In line with the Neues Bauen’s interest in the economic, technical, and social aspects of architecture, Hilberseimer gave decisive importance to the hall as building type, emphasizing the utilitarian value of this technically innovative object and urban facility. Keynote: Hilberseimer and the Hall: Constructive Modernity and Urban FacilityĬhristine Mengin (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) With Monika Markgraf (Research Associate, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation)īy Barbara Steiner (Director & CEO, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) and Florian Strob (Research Associate, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) Guided Tour of Dessau-Törten Housing Estate

Hilberseimer project for highrise city