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Architectural body / Madeline Gins and Arakawa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gins, Madeline.
- Series:
- Modern and contemporary poetics.
- Modern and contemporary poetics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Philosophy.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 102 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8190-2
- OCLC:
- 320324526
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