TY - GEN AU - Phillips, Stephen J. TI - Elastic architecture : Frederick Kiesler and design research in the first age of robotic culture SN - 9780262035736 U1 - 720.92 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - MIT Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction : Design Research: The non-building architect 1 Actorless stages and endless theaters 29 Habits and tactics: the automatisms of display 79 Laboratory experiments: design-correlation 123 Autonomic vision: the surrealist galleries and the museum 165 Introjection and projection: endless houses and dream machines 215 Elastic architecture: from control to liberation 269 Conclusion: architecture and its robota 303 Notes 315 Index 353 ER -