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

• Main Author: Phillips, Stephen John 1967- (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
• Subjects: Kiesler, Frederick > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Kiesler, Frederick; Σχέδιο > Ιστορία > 20ος αι.; Αρχιτεκτονική και τεχνολογία

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 aga...

Table of Contents:

• 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.