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 was born in Vienna in 1890. After emigrating to New York in 1926, he served as Director for Stage Design for the Julliard School of Music, designed the interior for Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century, and designed the International Surrealist Exhibition put on by Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp in Paris in 1947, among many other activities.
"Greg Lynn has been an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University since 1990. He is presently the professor of spatial conception and exploration at the ETH in Zurich, the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University, and a studio professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His office, Greg Lynn FORM, is working in collaborative partnerships with a variety of architects on a range of projects, including a line of international showrooms for PGLIFE.COM; the Cincinnati Country Day School in Cincinnati, Ohio; the Vision Plan for Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Ark of the World Museum in Costa Rica; and the recently completed Korean Presbyterian Church of New York."
Lebbeus Woods, born in 1940, was trained as an engineer and architect. He worked with major architectural firms before entering private practice. Since 1976, he has focused exclusively on experimental projects. Woods has designed more than 50 architectural projects and installations, participated in 60 exhibitions, written or edited over 100 books and articles, made nearly 200 public appearances and held more than 20 academic appointments. He also established the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture.
"Greg Lynn has been an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University since 1990. He is presently the professor of spatial conception and exploration at the ETH in Zurich, the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University, and a studio professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His office, Greg Lynn FORM, is working in collaborative partnerships with a variety of architects on a range of projects, including a line of international showrooms for PGLIFE.COM; the Cincinnati Country Day School in Cincinnati, Ohio; the Vision Plan for Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Ark of the World Museum in Costa Rica; and the recently completed Korean Presbyterian Church of New York."
Lebbeus Woods, born in 1940, was trained as an engineer and architect. He worked with major architectural firms before entering private practice. Since 1976, he has focused exclusively on experimental projects. Woods has designed more than 50 architectural projects and installations, participated in 60 exhibitions, written or edited over 100 books and articles, made nearly 200 public appearances and held more than 20 academic appointments. He also established the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture.
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