Kiesler, Frederick, author.

Magic architecture : the story of human housing / Frederick Kiesler ; edited by Spyros Papapetros and Gerd Zillner.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]

450 pages : illustrations (black and white), facsimiles ; 30 cm

"A first-ever publication of Frederick Kiesler's manifesto from 1945, transcribed and annotated, accompanied with original illustrations and introduced with an essay by Spyros Papapetros"-- Provided by publisher.
"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." -- adapted from publisher.

9780262046749 (hardcover)
0262046741

Architecture Human factors.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.

Papapetros, Spyros, editor.
Zillner, Gerd, editor.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 322415
Cote: 322415
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Statut: Disponible