Endless Space - Softcover

Kiesler, Frederick; Bogner, Dieter; Lynn, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775710477 ISBN 13: 9783775710473

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2001

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 Space reconstructs 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.

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Frederick J. Kiesler: architect, sculptor, painter, designer, set designer and art historian. Kiesler was tireless in his pursuit of a radical new concept for interior spaces; his dream was a polydimensional living space, an organic continuum in which colour, form and light - combined with magical and mythical themes - would create a unique cosmos. His so-called Endless House stayed with him all his life, and although it was never realised it still fascinated and influenced other architects and artists more than many other actual 20th century buildings. The publication Endless Space has been produced in collaboration with the Osterreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler Privatstiftung. Thanks to the rich holdings in this foundation it has been possible to reconstruct Kiesler's ideals of living and his concept of modernity.

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