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Junya Ishigami receives the 13th Kiesler Prize in Vienna

2024-06-18T18:38:00-04:00

Junya Ishigami, the Japanese architect and creative force behind his country's continued dominance on the international scene, has accepted his 2024 Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts via a special awards ceremony held yesterday in Vienna.

The 2019 Serpentine Pavilion designer and founder of Tokyo's Junya Ishigami + Associates was recognized by the Prize's jury this January for a boundary-pushing approach that has largely and by many measures contributed to contemporary architecture's embrace of more ethereal and open public space-oriented designs while earning his reputation as the “Master of the Void.”

House & Restaurant, Ube/Japan, 2022, photograph © junya.ishigami+associates

"Junya Ishigami is one of the most interesting architects of the younger generation. Both his persistent attitude and his visionary work make him the perfect Kiesler Prize winner," Kiesler Foundation president Elke Delugan-Meissi said prior to his acceptance. "His poetically sculp...

Theaster Gates has been awarded the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts

2021-09-14T15:27:00-04:00

Artist, educator, and urban planner Theaster Gates has been awarded the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts by the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation.

The 55,000 Euro ($65,000 USD) prize, awarded every two years by the Republic of Austria and the City of Vienna, recognizes outstanding achievement in architecture and the arts that relate to artist, designer, set designer, and architect Frederick Kiesler’s experimental and innovative approach to the arts.

“Spatial platforms that highlight the contributions of Black artists and designers have been long overlooked,” says Theaster Gates. “Projects that consider people as much as they consider the implications of the built form deserve merit. I’m so grateful to be part of this precedent and honored that the selection committee would acknowledge my practice as part of the amazing work by luminaries who have received this award in the past. I’m thankful to all who have supported my practice both wi...

Winners of the “Elastic Architecture” book giveaway

2017-08-21T14:23:00-04:00

In Archinect's latest book giveaway, our readers had a chance to win “Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture”. Authored by Stephen Phillips, SPARCHS principal and an architecture professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the book delves into Kiesler's interdisciplinary research and design practice and its lasting impact.

The five lucky winners are:

Jeff in Little Rock, AR
Richard in Englewood, CO
Philip in Bedford, MA
Michael in Morro Bay, CA
Justin in Knoxville, TN

Congrats to all the winners! Thanks to everyone who participated.

Win “Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture”!

2017-07-28T10:30:00-04:00

“Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture” is the first scholarly book on the architecture of Frederick Kiesler, who was once dubbed as the “the greatest non-building architect of our time” by Philip Johnson back in 1960. Authored by Stephen Phillips, SPARCHS principal and an architecture professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the 384-page hardcover book delves into Kiesler's interdisciplinary research and design practice.

Thanks to publisher MIT Press, Archinect is giving away five copies of “Elastic Architecture” to our readers! Read on for more.

Frederick Kiesler, concept of “expansion.” Saks Fifth Avenue show window, New York, 1929. Photograph by Karl John Worsinger. From Frederick Kiesler, Contemporary Art Applied to the Store and Its Display, 1930.

According to Phillips, Frederick Kiesler “established a new career trajectory for architects not as master builders, but as research practitioners whose innovative means and me...