TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gins,Madeline
AU  - Arakawa,Shusaku
AU  - "Arakawa",.
TI  - Architectural Body
T2  - Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser
SN  - 9780817381905
AV  - NA2500 
U1  - 720/.1 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Architecture -- Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Organism That Persons -- 2. Landing Sites -- 3. Architecture as Hypothesis -- 4. Architectural Surround -- 5. Procedural Architecture -- 6. Notes for an Architectural Body -- 7. Two Architectural Procedures -- 8. Critical Holder -- 9. Daily Research -- About the Authors
N2  - This manifesto is 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
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