{"product_id":"magic-architecture-the-story-of-human-housing","title":"Magic Architecture: The Story of Human Housing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMagic Architecture: The Story of Human Housing\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first publication of Frederick Kiesler's most ambitious book—a sweeping history of how humans have sheltered themselves, from prehistory to the atomic age, written after the Second World War and then set aside for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKiesler submitted the manuscript to editors in the postwar years, then moved on to exhibitions and other projects, and it was never published in his lifetime. Long known by its title alone, it now appears as a critical edition reassembled from archival material by Spyros Papapetros and Gerd Zillner. Kiesler reads habitation through anthropology, ecology and the life sciences, setting the effects of modern technology against the 'magical' practices he found in cave drawings and the earliest artefacts of human making. The book keeps his original structure: a treatise in ten parts, modelled loosely on Vitruvius, that tells an alternative history and theory of architecture. It is illustrated throughout with more than 70 of Kiesler's composite collage plates—images cut from books and popular science journals, with his own elaborate captions—together with line drawings he made for the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst publication of a manuscript long regarded as one of the great unpublished texts of 20th-century architecture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCritical edition with introductory essays tracing the history of Kiesler's research and its key themes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore than 70 composite plate illustrations and original line drawings by Kiesler, with 244 figures in total\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendixes of further textual and visual material Kiesler gathered for the project, plus annotations tracing its development\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKiesler's account of human housing, from animal dwellings and caves to the age of atomic technology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow ideas from anthropology, ecology and biology fed his thinking about architecture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe theory behind the visionary work, such as the Endless House, for which Kiesler is best known\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA collage-based method of argument that sits between art, research and architectural writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederick Kiesler (1890–1965) was an Austrian-born American architect, artist, set designer and sculptor, celebrated for his exhibition designs and visionary projects, most famously the Endless House. Spyros Papapetros is associate professor of art and architectural theory and historiography at Princeton University and the author of \u003cem\u003eOn the Animation of the Inorganic\u003c\/em\u003e. Gerd Zillner is director of the Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation in Vienna, where he has curated numerous exhibitions on Kiesler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780262046749\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e MIT Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For:\u003c\/strong\u003e Architectural historians and theorists, readers of the avant-garde, and anyone interested in the deep history of the house and the idea of dwelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51462616547553,"sku":"9780262046749","price":170.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9780262046749.jpg?v=1794447070","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/magic-architecture-the-story-of-human-housing","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}