商品描述
The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler's epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant. 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history of human housing from prehistory to the atomic era, submitted to editors after World War II but left unpublished. In its holistic view of habitation through the lens of anthropology, ecology, and the life sciences,
Magic Architecture is one of the most extraordinary texts on architecture written in the twentieth century, now at last published in the twenty-first. Kiesler's exploration of the effects of modern technology in combination with the alternative epistemology of "magical" practices associated with cave drawings and the first artifacts of human industry reflects his profoundly interdisciplinary perspective on the development of art, architecture, and design.
This critical edition preserves Kiesler's conception of the book as a neo-Vitruvian treatise divided into ten parts that narrate an alternative history 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. The editors have reassembled the book's text and illustrations from archival documents, supplementing them with notes that trace the copious development of the work. Introductory essays provide an interpretation of key themes and bibliographic sources, as well as a chronological context of the architect's research. Appendixes offer additional textual and visual material gathered by Kiesler for the project.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
藝術家及建築師 Frederick Kiesler 的跨時代人類建築歷史的首次出版，雖然大多數人不知曉，但仍然具有相關性。
《Magic Architecture》是建築師 Frederick Kiesler 最具雄心的書籍計畫，涵蓋從史前時代到原子時代的人類居住歷史，於二戰後提交給編輯，但未曾出版。這本書從人類學、生態學和生命科學的角度，對居住的整體觀點進行探討，是二十世紀最非凡的建築文本之一，現在終於在二十一世紀出版。Kiesler 探索現代科技的影響，結合與洞穴畫和人類工業最早工藝品相關的「魔法」實踐的替代認識論，反映了他對藝術、建築和設計發展的深刻跨學科視角。
這本批判版保留了 Kiesler 對該書的構想，作為一部新維特魯威式的論文，分為十個部分，敘述一個替代的建築歷史和理論。書中還包含了七十多幅合成圖版插圖，這些插圖由書籍和流行科學期刊中的圖像剪切和粘貼而成，並附有詳細的說明文字，以及 Kiesler 為此專案特別創作的線條畫。編輯們從檔案文件中重新組合了書籍的文本和插圖，並補充了追溯該作品豐富發展的註解。導言文章提供了對關鍵主題和書目來源的詮釋，以及建築師研究的時間背景。附錄提供了 Kiesler 為該專案收集的額外文本和視覺材料。
作者簡介
Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965) was an Austrian-born American artist, architect, set designer, and sculptor best known for his exhibition installations and visionary architectural projects, including an experimental model of human habitation titled
The Endless House.
Spyros Papapetros is Associate Professor of Art and Architectural Theory and Historiography at Princeton University. His many publications include
On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life and the edited volume
Retracing the Expanded Field: Encounters between Art and Architecture (MIT Press, 2014).
Gerd Zillner is Director of the Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna. He has curated numerous exhibitions on Kiesler and coedited the volumes
Frederick Kiesler: Face to Face with the Avant-Garde and
Friedrich Kiesler: Architekt, Künstler, Visionär.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
弗雷德里克·基斯勒（Frederick Kiesler，1890-1965）是一位出生於奧地利的美國藝術家、建築師、舞台設計師和雕塑家，以其展覽裝置和富有遠見的建築項目而聞名，其中包括一個名為《無盡之家》（The Endless House）的實驗性人類居住模型。
斯皮羅斯·帕帕特羅斯（Spyros Papapetros）是普林斯頓大學藝術與建築理論及歷史學的副教授。他的多部出版物包括《無機物的動畫：藝術、建築與生命的延伸》（On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life）以及編輯的專著《重追擴展領域：藝術與建築之間的邂逅》（Retracing the Expanded Field: Encounters between Art and Architecture，麻省理工學院出版社，2014年）。
格爾德·齊爾納（Gerd Zillner）是維也納弗雷德里克與莉莉安·基斯勒私人基金會的主任。他策劃了多個關於基斯勒的展覽，並共同編輯了《弗雷德里克·基斯勒：與前衛面對面》（Frederick Kiesler: Face to Face with the Avant-Garde）和《弗里德里希·基斯勒：建築師、藝術家、夢想家》（Friedrich Kiesler: Architekt, Künstler, Visionär）等專著。
