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In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition.
The resonance of parts unfolds to an alternative of a purely contrasting equation of form and content. It reminds us, that when the ground (gr.: logos) of the city is defined by its parts (gr.: meros), its architecture, the city in turn always also is part of the architecture as its desire.
»The Mereological City« introduces a mereological methodology and contributes to an ongoing discussion about an ecological form of urban design.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
1. Prologue: Architecture as a Discipline of Composition 7
2. Introduction: Topic, State of Knowledge, Method 19
3. The Large City: The will to elemental architecture 61
4. The unfolding of a planning idea 123
5. The punctualisation as architectural method 165
6. Conclusion: The Art of City-Planning 209
Notes 215
List of Figures 239
Bibliography 247