Education
Hilberseimer studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Technical University from 1906 to 1910.
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Hilberseimer studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Technical University from 1906 to 1910.
He left before completing a degree. Afterward he worked in the architectural office Behrens and Neumark. Until 1914 he was coworker in the office of Heinz Lassen in Bremen.
Later he led the planning office for Zeppelinhallenbau in Berlin Staaken.
In 1929 Hilberseimer was hired by Hannes Meyer to teach at the Bauhaus at Dessau, Germany. He arrived in 1938 to work for Mies van der Rohe in Chicago while heading the department of urban planning at IIT College of Architecture.
Hilberseimer also became director of Chicago"s city planning office.
Beginning in 1919 he was member of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst and November Group, worked as independent architect and town planner and published numerous theoretical writings over art, architecture and town construction. In July 1933 Hilberseimer and Wassily Kandinsky were the two members of the Bauhaus that the Gestapo identified as problematically left-wing. Like many members of the Bauhaus, he fled Germany for America.