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Magic Architecture The Story of Human Housing

• MIT Press • ISBN Not provided

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Magic Architecture The Story of Human Housing

• MIT Press • ISBN-13 9780262046749

ISBN-10 Not provided • 2025

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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history of human housing from prehistory to the atomic era, submitted to editors after World War II but left unpublished.

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Publisher: MIT Press
2025
Pages: 450

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Contributor: Kiesler for the projectMovement: Modernism

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Category: Anthropology Of ArtCategory: Architectural HistoryCategory: Human EcologyCategory: Modernist ArchitectureCategory: Theory Of ArchitectureCategory: Frederick KieslerCategory: Architectural TheoryCategory: Human Habitation

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