The person who creates a space will always be seen within it, as shown by the face that emerges from this set of drawings
In the 1920s, Austrian-American architect Frederick Kiesler began work on his Endless House, which – as its name suggests – would occupy him for some time. In this drawing, a face emerges from the elevations, a ghostly reminder of the people embodied by the spaces they have created for themselves. Kiesler’s work on the Endless House lasted for four decades, but it was never realised to scale. An array of biomorphic rooms raised on stilts encapsulated what Kiesler termed ‘correalism’: the interconnectedness of all organic forms. Implicitly, it was a critique of the western modernist project, and its suggestion that a house is ‘a machine for living in’.
Credit: © 2022 Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna
