Elastic Architecture
Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
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- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2017
Summary
Twentieth-century architect Frederick Kiesler’s innovative multidisciplinary practice responded to the ever-changing needs of the body in motion, anticipating the research-oriented practices of contemporary art and architecture.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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262035736 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262035731 |
| Author: | Stephen J. Phillips |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.11kg |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 29mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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In Elastic Architecture, Stephen J. Phillips persuasively unites Kiesler’s diverse designs under one coherent philosophy: elasticity. This philosophy embraces ‘flexible environmental systems that… modulate in response to everyday actions, human desires, and bodily needs’… Elasticity recuperates Kiesler for contemporary design by recontextualizing his work as a lifelong exploration of the sensory qualities of space.
—Sophie Duvernoy, Los Angeles Review of BooksKiesler was a visionary, a surrealist working at liminal extremities, and Phillips’s wonderfully detailed and knowledgable book gives us a full picture of how he worked out his ideas. This is a great book on a fascinating guy.
—3:AM MagazinePhillips has convincingly demonstrated the intellectual coherence of an exceptional character who, through his remarkable work, laid the conceptual foundations for contemporary design.
—JSAH…demonstrates the ways in which Kiesler’s work… established new contextual horizons for what architecture and design could be under industrial and postindustrial capitalism.
—Journal of Architectural EducationAbout The Author
Stephen J. Phillips
Stephen J. Phillips is Professor of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University, Founding Director of the Cal Poly Los Angeles Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design, and Principal Architect at the firm Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS).
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