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Architecture and Philosophy : New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins /

Lecercle, Jean-Jacques.

Architecture and Philosophy : New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins / New perspectives on the Work of Arakawa & Madeline Gins Jean-Jacques Lecerdle and Françoise Kral ; editors, Klaus Benesch [and others]. - 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations. - Architecture, technology, culture ; 6 . - Architecture – Technology – Culture 6. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004357921. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Gins and Arakawa, or The Passage to Materialism / Endless House—Architectural Body / Architecture and Poetic Efficacy Architectural Poetics / “Autopoietic Event Matrices” in Architecture and in Literature: Wordsworth talks to Arakawa and Gins / How Architecture Became Biotopian: From Meta-Biology to Causal Networks in Arakawa and Gins’ Architectural Body / Architectural Body as Generative Utopia? / Preceding an Architectural Body / A Bioscleave Report: Constructing the Perceiver / Leafing Through a Universe: Architectural Bodies and Fictional Worlds / Arakawa and Gins’s Architectural Body: a Transgeneric Manifesto / “No Mere Play on Words.” A Stylistic Analysis of Architectural Body / Authors -- Appendix. Jean-Jacques Lecercle -- Jed Rasula -- Alan Prohm -- Fionn C. Bennett -- Joshua Schuster -- Françoise Kral -- Chris L. Smith -- Jondi Keane -- Ronald Shusterman -- Simone Rinzler -- Linda Pillière --

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Architecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins is a collection of essays on the work of artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins and in particular their book Architectural Body (2000). The essays approach their cutting edge and ambitious project to design 'an architecture against death' from various angles and disciplines including aesthetics, architecture, linguistics, philosophy. The papers retrace the place of Architectural Body in the aesthetic landscape of art at the turn of the 21st century and assess the utopian stance of their work.

9789042031906

10.1163/9789042031906 DOI


Architecture and philosophy.
Architecture--Human factors.
Architecture and philosophy.
Architecture--Human factors.

NA2500 / .L43 2010eb

720.1