Word: kiesler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crust of this old earth ready for Kiesler's structures such as "Endless House" [May 25], which are not premeditated by the prerequisites of conventional planning to secure the bank loan and a dogmatic facade for thy neighbor's sake? American suburbia still says no, I'm afraid...
Architect Kiesler's "Endless House" is neither revolutionary nor adventurous; it is merely a Stone Age cave turned inside out. WILLIAM LAGES Torrance, Calif...
...into ceilings, with no inter ruption and no corners. Designed for shoeless clambering, the interior is a plexus of balcony hideaways, ramps, hanging screens, near-flat areas with shelves for seats, and even a waterfall in the master bedroom. "Of course a building shouldn't be a box," Kiesler explained last week, perching by his model like a bird overlooking its nest. "It shouldn't be candy either-the candy engineering they're doing now. It needs to be flowing and opening, getting louder and softer, opening out and moving in. To be inside my Endless House...
Might it also be comfortable? Where would the refrigerator go? Won't those balconies be dangerous for children? How about privacy, heating and storage? Kiesler does have answers to these questions, though as an all-out idea man he can be impatient with too much insistence on the practical. Comfort is largely a matter of habit, he argues; his house might seem uncomfortable at first, yet not remain so. The curving lips of the interior overhangs make them fairly safe for children. There is visual privacy, though not the privacy that doors afford. The kitchen is to be built...
Tentative plans have been made to build Kiesler's new departure in architecture in the garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, where a full-scale Japanese house was erected for exhibition five years ago. Never a man to waste time waiting for the decisions of practical men, Kiesler has plunged ahead into yet another project-a room for meditation, in which paintings open like windows and sculptures burst treelike from the floor...