{"id":2765,"date":"2019-05-23T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2019-05-23T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:58:11","slug":"realising-frederick-kieslers-endless-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/2019\/05\/23\/realising-frederick-kieslers-endless-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Realising Frederick Kiesler&#8217;s Endless House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Kiesler\u2019s Endless House is regarded as one of the most visionary projects in the history of 20th Century architecture. It was a project that spanned almost forty years, developed through sketches, drawings, plans and models between mid-1920\u2019s to the 1960\u2019s but it was never built. Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, considered it important to translate Kiesler\u2019s architecture into reality.<\/p>\n<p>Kent School of Architecture and Planning&#8217;s 3D CAD Technician, Julien Soosaipillai, built a digital model of the exterior shell from texts, drawings and photographs of Kiesler\u2019s model for his unfinished Endless House project. This is the first step in <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/digital-architecture\">DARC<\/a>&#8216;s current project to realise Frederick Kiesler&#8217;s &#8216;Endless House&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdboFc_6Bvw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Kiesler\u2019s Endless House is regarded as one of the most visionary projects in the history of 20th Century architecture. It was a project that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/2019\/05\/23\/realising-frederick-kieslers-endless-house\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":2771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,175669,158264],"tags":[200480,175669,175660,200482,200481,200479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}