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ARAKAWA / MADELINE GINS / ANDREW BENJAMIN Architecture - Sites of Reversible Destiny - Architectural Experiments After Auschwitz - Hiroshima , By Arakawa & Madeline Gins
London: Academy Editions, 1994. First Edition. Soft Cover. Photos. 10 x 12 x 1/2 " 1854902792 1994 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ..... tiny bit edge shelf wear to bottom corner edge and back glossy black cover ... Gift Giving quality ... This is a large handsome volume, in glossy cover, illustrated throughout with more than 240 photographs, most in color , many full-page ... 127 pages , 10 x 12 " size , weighing 2 pounds ... " As the millennium drew to a close, architecture was the only arena left for revolutionary thinking ..... for it alone is capable, as a medium , of simultaneously encompassing and adressing concept and action in spacetime " ... Continuing the collaboration of over 30 years between the New York based artists Arakawa and Madeline Gins, this book is a unique and predominently visual exploration into the architecture and its centrality to the project of the human self-knowledge and self-formation ... carrying philosophical argument into the realm of construction ... Documenting what it is actually like for a person to stand within a piece of architecture, this is the first systematic study of the role the body and bodily movement play in the forming of the world ... Through a series of computer generated images of great beauty and intricacy, the reader is presented with ways of reworking the man-made world that is architecture ... Going futher, the book suggests a revoluntionary re-invention of the planet and, by extension, the universe ... Arakawa and Gins' vision is profoundly optimistic, one of an architecture that empowers instead of repressing humanity ... architecture that tentatively opposes the monumentality which led to the acts of annihilation at Auschwitz and Hiroshima ... An essay by Andrew Benjamin and a selection of projects including : Site of Reversible Destiny, in Gifu, Japan .. Reversible Destiny House I : the Bridge of Reversible Destiny , Epinal France ... and Double - Horizon Public Housing , Berlin Germany ... complete what amounts to a whole new turn to architecture and art-making alike ... Arakawa has exhibited widely throughout Europe and America ... Madeline Gins is the author of ' What the President will Say and Do ' ... and ' Hellen Keller or Arakaa ' , among other works ... They have collaborated since 1963 on the project ' The Mechanism of Meaning ' ... and in 1987 created the Containers of the Mind Foundation ... They have a permanent installation forming part of the Nagi Museum, and their Site of Reversible Destiny, as well as an shows at the Guggenheim Museum, New York ... " Architecture - Sites of Reversible Destiny - Architectural Experiments after Aushwitz - Hiroshima " ... Art and Design Monographs ... by Arakawa & Madeline Gins ... published by Academy Editions, London 1994 softcover ... ***. New .
Offered for US$ 89.95 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 6078
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