Elastic architecture : Frederick Kiesler and design research in the first age of robotic culture

Title
  1. Elastic architecture : Frederick Kiesler and design research in the first age of robotic culture / Stephen J. Phillips.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Author
  1. Phillips, Stephen John, 1967-

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Description
  1. xiv, 364 pages : illustrations (some color), plans; 24 cm
Summary
  1. In 1960, the renowned architect Philip Johnson championed Frederick Kiesler, calling him "the greatest non-building architect of our time." Kiesler's ideas were difficult to construct, but as Johnson believed, "enormous" and "profound." Kiesler (1890-1965) went against the grain of the accepted modern style, rejecting rectilinear glass and steel in favor of more organic forms and flexible structures that could respond to the ever-changing needs of the body in motion. In Elastic Architecture, Stephen Phillips offers the first in-depth exploration of Kiesler's innovative and multidisciplinary research and design practice. Phillips argues that Kiesler established a new career trajectory for architects not as master builders, but as research practitioners whose innovative means and methods could advance alternative and speculative architecture. Indeed, Kiesler's own career was the ultimate uncompromising model of a research-based practice. Exploring Kiesler's formative relationships with the European avant-garde, Phillips shows how Kiesler found inspiration in the plastic arts, experimental theater, early animation, and automatons to develop and refine his spatial concept of the Endless. Moving from Europe to New York in the 1920s, Kiesler applied these radical Dadaist, constructivist, and surrealist practices to his urban display projects, which included shop windows for Saks Fifth Avenue.
Subject
  1. Architecture and technology
  2. Design > History > 20th century
  3. Kiesler, Frederick > Criticism and interpretation
Contents
  1. Actorless stages and endless theaters -- Habits and tactics: the automatisms of display -- Laboratory experiments: design-correlation -- Autonomic vision: the surrealist galleries and the museum -- Introjection and projection: endless houses and dream machines -- Elastic architecture: from control to liberation -- Conclusion: architecture and its robota.
Call number
  1. JQE 17-518
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Phillips, Stephen John, 1967- author.
Title
  1. Elastic architecture : Frederick Kiesler and design research in the first age of robotic culture / Stephen J. Phillips.
Publisher
  1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2016028475
ISBN
  1. 9780262035736 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  2. 0262035731 hardcover ; alkaline paper
Research call number
  1. JQE 17-518
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