Magic Architecture
The Story of Human Housing
$181.24
- Hardcover
450 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2025
Summary
Artist and architect Frederick Kiesler’s epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant.
Magic Architecture was the architect Frederick Kiesler’s most ambitious book project, an epoch-spanning history of human housing from prehistory to the atomic era, submitted to editors after World War II but left unpublished. In its holistic view of habitation through the lens of anthropology, ecology, and the life sciences, Magic Architecture is…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262046749 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262046741 |
| Author: | Frederick Kiesler, Spyros Papapetros |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 450 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.94kg |
| Dimensions: | 44mm x 328mm x 257mm |
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About The Author
Frederick Kiesler
Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965) was an Austrian-born American artist, architect, set designer, and sculptor best known for his exhibition installations and visionary architectural projects, including an experimental model of human habitation titled The Endless House.
Spyros Papapetros is Associate Professor of Art and Architectural Theory and Historiography at Princeton University. His many publications include On the Animation of the Inorganic- Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life and the edited volume Retracing the Expanded Field- Encounters between Art and Architecture.
Gerd Zillner is Director of the Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna. He has curated numerous exhibitions on Kiesler and coedited the volumes Frederick Kiesler- Face to Face with the Avant-Garde and Friedrich Kiesler- Architekt, K nstler, Vision r.
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