“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. 

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According to Phillips, Frederick Kiesler “established a new career trajectory for architects not as master builders, but as research practitioners whose innovative means and methods could advance alternative and speculative architecture”. 

As part of the European avant-garde, Kiesler developed his architectural ideas from a range of sources: the plastic arts, experimental theater, early animation, and automatons. Although many of Kiesler's ideas remain unbuilt, his designs methods left a lasting impact on many architects and artists like Archigram, Greg Lynn, UNStudio, and Olafur Eliasson.

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