Magic architecture : the story of human housing /
Magic Architecture was the architect Frederick Kiesler's most ambitious book project, an epoch-spanning history of human housing from prehistory to the atomic era. In its holistic view of habitation through the lens of anthropology, ecology and the life sciences, Magic Architecture is one of th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Magic Architecture was the architect Frederick Kiesler's most ambitious book project, an epoch-spanning history of human housing from prehistory to the atomic era. In its holistic view of habitation through the lens of anthropology, ecology and the life sciences, Magic Architecture is one of the most astonishing texts on architecture written in the twentieth century, now at last published inthe twenty-first. This critical edition preserves Kiesler's conception of the book as a neo-Vitruvian treatise divided into ten parts that narrate an alternative hsitory and theory of architecture. Also included are more than seventy composite plate illustrations consisting of images cut and pasted from books and popular science journals, with elaborate captions, as well as Kiesler's own line drawings made specifically for this project. |
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| Physical Description: | 450 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262046749 0262046741 |