Story of the Thing : for boys at heart

A system of tension in free space a change of space into
Urbanism no foundations no walls detatchment from
The earth suppression of the static axis in creating
New possibilities for living it creates a new society
kiesler

This thing’s come a long way since we
started this exhibition
Wasn’t it a great floating city to
begin with – a Europe city that spanned
the channel
why did we give that idea up?
Perhaps because of the purely
Visionary nature of the idea it’ll be
Years before there’s a political set-up
Sufficient for this to come into being and

Anyway with communications, closed circuit TV
We may not want to live in cities any more
Year, I think that’s where Kiesler and
Schulze Felitz with his space frame city fall down

The thing gradually materialises ……
Covering the earth
In its net

As liberators of ideas they are
Tremendous but their technology can only answer today’s problems
So we ended up doing a Science
Fiction city, a THING in the sky
A gigantic war machine like a zeppelin
or a missile Aliens from another World
space
drama

this thing could be a vast net encircling the earth
or it could be the molecular structure of a virus

David Greene