Architecture and philosophy : new perspectives on the work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins / / Jean-Jacques Lecercle and Françoise Kral.

• Superior document: Architecture, technology, culture ; 6
• Author: Lecercle, Jean-Jacques.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kral, Françoise.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Architecture, technology, culture ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: 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.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9042031905
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jean-Jacques Lecercle and Françoise Kral.

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.