Frederick J. Kiesler Endless Space

by Kiesler, Frederick J.

• ISBN13: 9783775710473
• ISBN10: 3775710477
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Frederick J. Kiesler was an architect, sculptor, painter, designer, and art historian. He was tireless in his pursuit of a radical new concept of interior spaces: his dream was a polydimensional living space, an organic continuum in which color, form, and light, combined with magical and mythical themes, would create a new cosmos. His so-called Endless House, imagined and designed in the 1950s, though never realized, stayed with him all his life, and has fascinated and influenced other architects for decades. Endless Spacereconstructs Kiesler's ideals of living and his concept of modernity with extensive illustrations from Kiesler's archives and texts about his theories and career. An essential addition to the history of 20th-century architecture and design.

Table of Contents

On the Subject: Avant-Garde as an Obsession	7	(4)
Peter Noever
Inside The Endless House	11	(16)
Dieter Bogner
Frederick J. Kiesler: Ambient Artist	27	(36)
Lisa Phillips
Frederick J. Kiesler: Out of Time	63	(6)
Lebbeus Woods
Endless Surface	69	(32)
Greg Lynn
Frederick J. Kiesler: Endless Space
Symposium	73	(15)
Chronology	88	(4)
Manifesto on Correalism	92	(9)
Oxygen - Flipping Through Kiesler	101	(5)
Birgitta Rottmann
Markus Schinwald
Meike Schmidt-Gleim
Catalog of Illustrations	106