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Follow on Google News | Harry Stendhal in Collaboration with George Maciunas Foundation and Think Offsite LLCMaciunas Prefabricated Building System : An ASSESSMENT REPORT Founder of Fluxus Also Visionary Architect and Inventor.
By: Harry Stendhal Born in Lithuania to an architect and engineer father, Maciunas (1931-1978) apprenticed in his father’s office before immigrating to the United States with his family after World War II. Their first residence was the post-war housing development in Levittown, Long Island, giving Maciunas early, first hand experience of mass-produced prefabricated housing. In 1954, Maciunas earned an architectural degree from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute of Technology. After graduation, he worked for several major firms, including Skidmore, Owing and Merrill, and the highly regarded designers Knoll Associates. In the early sixties, Maciunas focus shifted to avant-garde art, designing publications and organizing festivals promoting American, European and Asian experimental artists such as Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik and Yoko Ono. Despite his association with innovative artists of 1960's, his involvement with affordable mass produced pre-fabricated housing was a concrete example of his practical nature. A student of history, Maciunas was intimately aware of the preceding building systems of Le Corbusier (homes as “machines for living”), and Buckminister Fuller’s geodesic dome. He was also interested in advanced housing developments in the Soviet Union. The Fluxhouses are modeled on these precedents. As a way to avoid the bland conformity of Soviet block housing, or a Levittown development, Maciunas stressed optimum flexibility and adaptability. His system of Fluxhouses is based on panels and modules so that it can expand, contract, or change shape to meet any required function (personal, public or commercial). The newly available Assessment Report provides an extended history of prefabricated housing systems, explains in detail how the Maciunas system of Fluxhouses work, and proposes steps for realizing the design in the current market. To read the report in full, visit the George Macunias website at www.georgemaciunas. com *Fluxhouse is a trademark of George Maciunas Foundation Inc. George Maciunas Foundation Inc. is a501 (c)(3) tax-exempt non-for-profit arts organization. MACIUNAS PREFABRICATED BUILDING SYSTEM An Assessment ReportModern art Designed by Alina Ryk and Harry Stendhal Stendhal Gallery, New York2009 George Maciunas Foundation inc would like to thank John Held Jr , Scott Weinkle, Ken Burrows, Ali C. Hocek , Bashar Azzouz and Nijole Valaitis ©Think OffSite LLC and The George Maciunas Foundation, Inc New York Report prepared by Think OffSite LLC for The George Maciunas Foundation, Inc. Fluxhouse is a trademark of George Maciunas Foundation Inc. George Maciunas Foundation Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) tax exempt non-for-profit arts organization. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the George Maciunas Foundation, Inc. George Maciunas Foundation, Inc. 545 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011, Tel: +212-366-1549, info@georgemaciunas.com. Press Contact: Harry Stendhal George Maciunas Foundation, Inc. 545 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 212-366-1549 harry@stendhalgallery.com http://www.georgemaciunas.com # # # PressReleasePoint is a public relations agency dedicated to press release writing and distribution services. End
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