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The Birth of Design

Spyros Papapetros

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Frederick Kiesler, Table on “Abstraction” and “Design,” preliminary illustration for Magic Architecture (ca. mid-1940s) The Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Foundation, Vienna, TXT_6806_0_N2.

Superhumanity
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Notes
1

Frederick J. Kiesler, Magic Architecture. Origin and Future. The Story of Human Housing, unpublished book manuscript (ca. 1945) Archive of the Austrian Frederick and Lilian Kiesler Private Foundation Vienna, (hereafter cited as MA), TXT_6806_0_N2.

2

MA, TXT_6806_0_N1.

3

Karl Weule, “Die Eidechse als Ornament in Afrika,” in Festschrift für Adolf Bastian zu seinem 70. Geburtstage. (1896), 169-94.

4

In particular, Leo Frobenius, Kulturgeschichte Afrikas (1933).

5

James Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, abridged ed. of 1922 (1996), 15.

6

MA, TXT_6689_0_N1.

7

MA,11_SFP_6662_0_N6.

8

Frederick Kiesler, Ecology Exhibition, study for a project in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1944. The Kiesler Foundation, Vienna, SFP 6614.

9

MA, TXT_5877_0_N015-16.

Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.