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Architectural Body (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) by Gins, Madeline; Arakawa, Shūsaku is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Architectural Body (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) about?

**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 inven

Who reads Architectural Body (Modern and Contemporary Poetics)?

Author

Gins, Madeline; Arakawa, Shūsaku

Publisher

University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817311681

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Architecture, Short Stories