A new show at the Jewish Museum celebrates Kiesler, an eccentric architectural theoretician who envisioned spinning wraparound bookshelves and continually evolving half-underground houses.
It’s been said the most sustainable buildings are the ones that already exist. Indeed, adaptive reuse and historic renovation projects have the benefit of preserving existing building materials and the embodied carbon within them, diverting construction waste from landfills and utilizing less energy compared to new construction projects.