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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824751403321

Autore

Gins Madeline

Titolo

Architectural body / / Madeline Gins and Arakawa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8173-8190-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 102 pages)

Collana

Modern and contemporary poetics

Altri autori (Persone)

ArakawaShusaku <1936-2010.>

Disciplina

720/.1

Soggetti

Architecture - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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