Architecture and philosophy : new perspectives on the work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins / / 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 &...

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Superior document:Architecture, technology, culture ; 6
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Preface
  • Gins and Arakawa, or The Passage to Materialism / Jean-Jacques Lecercle
  • Endless House—Architectural Body / Jed Rasula
  • Architecture and Poetic Efficacy Architectural Poetics / Alan Prohm
  • “Autopoietic Event Matrices” in Architecture and in Literature: Wordsworth talks to Arakawa and Gins / Fionn C. Bennett
  • How Architecture Became Biotopian: From Meta-Biology to Causal Networks in Arakawa and Gins’ Architectural Body / Joshua Schuster
  • Architectural Body as Generative Utopia? / Françoise Kral
  • Preceding an Architectural Body / Chris L. Smith
  • A Bioscleave Report: Constructing the Perceiver / Jondi Keane
  • Leafing Through a Universe: Architectural Bodies and Fictional Worlds / Ronald Shusterman
  • Arakawa and Gins’s Architectural Body: a Transgeneric Manifesto / Simone Rinzler
  • “No Mere Play on Words.” A Stylistic Analysis of Architectural Body / Linda Pillière
  • Authors
  • Appendix.