Frederick Kiesler, Spyros Papapetros

Magic Architecture

The Story of Human Housing
Herausgeber: Papapetros, Spyros; Zillner, Gerd

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler s epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 328mm x 255mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1940g
• ISBN-13: 9780262046749
• ISBN-10: 0262046741
• Artikelnr.: 70733093

Autorenporträt

Frederick Kiesler; edited by Spyros Papapetros and Gerd Zillner

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Unity of Vision and Fact
PART ONE
Chapter 1: The Eternal Preamble to Architecture
Chapter 2: Fear of the Unseen
Chapter 3: The Enigma of Death
Chapter 4: The Enigma of Birth
Chapter 5: Birth necessitates Shelter; Death inspires Architecture
Chapter 6: The Cave, first natural Shelter
Chapter 7: The Nest, first artificial Shelter
Chapter 8: The Universe as Architecture
Chapter 9: The Split in the Unity of Vision and Fact
PART TWO ANIMAL ARCHITECTURE AND MAN’S ABILITY TO BUILD
Introduction
Instinct, Memory and the Drive for Invention
Chapter 1: Man’s House is Animal Architecture
Chapter 2: The Building-Instinct of Animals: the Termitary of the Termites
Chapter 3: Animal Engineering: the Dam of the Beaver
Chapter 4: Building Tools of Animals
Chapter 5: Man a Composite Animal of Building Techniques
Chapter 6: Man’s first Invention: The (first) transformation of dead
material into useful tools
Chapter 7: The (second) transformation of dead material into magic tools of
physical attraction
Chapter 8: The (third) transformation of dead material into magic tools of
spiritual Power
PART THREE AWARENESS OF THE MIRACULOUS
Introduction: From Animal Housing to Magic Architecture
Chapter 1: The Birth of Magic Design
Man discovers his capacity to convert his own body into a dream-image
through make-up.
Chapter 2: Man discovers that the fingers of his hand are magic wands for
the transformation of surfaces into images through the application of
paint.
Chapter 3: Man discovers that by making grooves (engraving) hard stone
objects held in his hand can transform soft stone surfaces into images.
Chapter 4: Discovery and Affirmation of the Superfluous
PART FOUR ART AND THE UNKNOWN
Introduction: The Superfluous becomes a Necessity
Chapter 1: The Meaning of Magic
Chapter 2: Man part of the Cosmos and Man apart from the Cosmos
Chapter 3: Artifacts, Symbols and Art
Chapter 4: Myth and Magic
Chapter 5: The psycho-plastic Era
Chapter 6: The ideo-plastic Era
Chapter 7: The Era of Metamorphosis
Chapter 8: The Era of Abstraction
Chapter 9: The Physio-plastic Era