Architectural Body by Arakawa, Shusaku

Architectural Body

A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define...
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Author: Shusaku Arakawa
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Architectural Body by Arakawa, Shusaku

Architectural Body

Dhs. 165.98

Architectural Body

Dhs. 165.98
Author: Shusaku Arakawa
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another

This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of work--museum installations, landscape and park commissions, home and office designs, avant-garde films, poetry collections--that challenges traditional notions about the built environment. This book promotes a deliberate use of architecture and design in dealing with the blight of the human condition; it recommends that people seek architectural and aesthetic solutions to the dilemma of mortality.

In 1997 the Guggenheim Museum presented an Arakawa/Gins retrospective and published a comprehensive volume of their work titled Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die. Architectural Body continues the philosophical definition of that project and demands a fundamental rethinking of the terms "human" and "being." When organisms assume full responsibility for inventing themselves, where they live and how they live will merge. The artists believe that a thorough re-visioning of architecture will redefine life and its limitations and render death passe. The authors explain that "Another way to read reversible destiny . . . Is as an open challenge to our species to reinvent itself and to desist from foreclosing on any possibility."

Audacious and liberating, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of 20th-century poetry, postmodern critical theory, conceptual art and architecture, contemporary avant-garde poetics, and to serious readers interested in architecture's influence on imaginative expression.


Author: Shusaku Arakawa, Madeline Gins
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 09/25/2002
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780817311698


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/23/2002 pg. 67

About the Author
Shusaku Arakawa (July 6, 1936-May 18, 2010) was a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades.

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