Matthew Krissel
University of Pennsylvania
ARCH: 611 History and Theory
December 16, 2003
“What are you my colleague architects
architecture?
exhibition.
City in Space – 1925 - Paris
Space”.
Cut out from Architectural Record – 1939 stressed concrete, plastic and glass)
Studies for Art of This Century - 1942 moved through space. Finally, he
Studies for Art of This Century - 1942 the architectural whole and was no
September 1960.
sculptures.23
Endless House model in progress – 1959
and architecture.
Endless House presentation drawings at MOMA – 1959 – more the opportunities to explore vector
New York
based curved surfaces with greater
Nox Architects/Lars Spuybroek, Fresh Water Pavilion, The Kiesler’s research is still as rich and
Netherlands
tantalizing as it was forty years ago.
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1
Kiesler, Frederick., et al. “Continuity, the new principal of Phillips, Lisa., et al. Frederick Kiesler – Whitney Museum.
Architecture.” Endless Space. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2001 The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989 pg.125-127
24
pg. 54 Kiesler, Frederick, Inside the Endless House . New York:
2
Lynn, Greg., et al. “Rethinking Kiesler – Endless Space Simon & Schuster, 1966 pg. 566
25
Symposium” Endless Space. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2001 pg. Kiesler, Frederick, “Manifeste du Correalisme,”
81 L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (June 1949)
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3
Bogner, Dieter., et al. Frederick Kiesler – Whitney Museum. Woods, Lebbeus., et al. “Frederick J. Kiesler Out of Time”
The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989 pg.48 Endless Space. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2001 pg. 66
4
Kiesler, Frederick, “Vitalbau-Raumstadt-Funktionelle
Architektur,” De Stijl 6/10-11 (1925): 141 ff
5
Barr jr, Alfred H., Cubism and Abstract Art, Exhibition
catalogue. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1936
pg. 144
6
Kiesler, Frederick, “On Correalism and Biotechnique,”
Architectural Record 86/3 (September 1939): 60-75
7
Kiesler, Frederick, “Manifeste du Correalisme,”
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (June 1949)
8
Kiesler, Frederick, “Manifeste du Correalisme,”
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (June 1949)
9
Bogner, Dieter., et al. Endless Space. Hatje Cantz
Publishers, 2001 pg. 11
10
Bogner, Dieter., et al. Endless Space. Hatje Cantz
Publishers, 2001 pg. 16
11
Bogner, Dieter., et al. Endless Space. Hatje Cantz
Publishers, 2001 pg. 14
12
Kiesler, Frederick, “Manifeste du Correalisme,”
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (June 1949)
13
Kiesler, Frederick, “Manifeste du Correalisme,”
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (June 1949)
14
Kiesler, Frederick, “Manifeste du Correalisme,”
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (June 1949)
15
Kiesler, Frederick, “Manifeste du Correalisme,”
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (June 1949)
16
Kiesler, Frederick, “Manifeste du Correalisme,”
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (June 1949)
17
Goodman, Cynthia., “Frederick Kiesler: Designs for Peggy
Guggenheim’s Art of This Centry Gallery,” Arts Magazine, 51
June 1977, pg.92
18
Phillips, Lisa., et al. Endless Space. Hatje Cantz
Publishers, 2001 pg. 28
19
Kiesler, Frederick, “Press Release Relating to the
Architectural Aspects of the Gallery,” Art of This Centry
Gallery, 1942, typescript, Kiesler Estate Archives, pg. 1
20
Kiesler, Frederick, “Manifeste du Correalisme,”
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (June 1949)
21
Quoted in Newsweek, October 2, 1942
22
Kiesler, Frederick., “Frederick Kiesler’s Endless House and
its Psychological Lighting”, in:Interiors, November 1950, pg.
123-125
All images in article are Copyright: Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
Source: Archive of the Kiesler Foundation Vienna
The photographer: Art of This C.: Berenice Abbott, commerce graphics Ltd.
Kiesler in front of Endless House model: Hans Namuth