Shusaku Arakawa
| Shusaku Arakawa | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 6, 1936 Nagoya, Japan |
| Died | May 18, 2010 (aged 73) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Artist/Architect |
Shusaku Arakawa (荒川 修作 Arakawa Shūsaku, July 6, 1936 – May 18, 2010)[1] was a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades.
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[edit] Life
Arakawa studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Tokyo, and art at the Musashino Art University.[2] Initially he worked with printmaking, using abstract dada and Neo-Dada styles. He had lived in New York since 1961.
Arakawa met his partner Madeline Gins in 1963. Together, they founded the Architectural Body Research Foundation. They designed and built residences (Reversible Destiny Houses, Bioscleave House, Shidami Resource Recycling Model House) and parks (Site of Reversible Destiny-Yoro). They developed an original theory and practice of the relation of the human being to the exterior world, elaborated most extensively in their book, Architectural Body. Arakawa and Gins were, together and separately, the authors of several books and exhibition volumes, most recently Making Dying Illegal (ISBN 1931824223).
[edit] Books by Arakawa and Gins
- Word Rain (Gins, 1969)
- The Mechanism of Meaning (Arakawa & Gins, 1971)
- Intend (Gins, 1973)
- What the President Will Say and Do (Gins, 1984)
- To Not to Die (Gins, 1987)
- Architecture: Sites of Reversible Destiny (Arakawa & Gins, 1994)
- Hellen Keller or Arakawa (Gins, 1994)
- Reversible Destiny (Arakawa & Gins, 1997)
- Architectural Body (Arakawa & Gins, 2002)
- Making Dying Illegal (Arakawa & Gins, 2006)
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[edit] External links
- Architectural Body Research Foundation
- A House Not for Mere Mortals
- Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro
- Sketches of the site
- Gallery at artnet.com
- Facts and reference at askart.com
- Reference at artfacts.net
- The Reversible Destiny: Architecture of Arakawa & Madeline Gins, Plazm magazine article
- Website for AG3-Online: The Third International Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy Conference, March 12-26, 2010.
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