{"product_id":"architectural-body-9780817311698","title":"Architectural Body","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1997 the Guggenheim Museum presented an Arakawa\/Gins retrospective and published a comprehensive volume of their work titled \u003ci\u003eReversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die. Architectural Body\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShusaku Arakawa\u003c\/b\u003e (July 6, 1936-May 18, 2010) was a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist \u003cb\u003eMadeline Gins\u003c\/b\u003e that spanned more than four decades. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328878940434,"sku":"9780817311698","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d073c39-0512-4335-9b5d-daeb42973855.jpg?v=1727753755","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/architectural-body-9780817311698","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}