Architecture: Sites of Reversible Destiny Architectural Experiments After Auschwitz-Hiroshima.
Gins, Arakawa and Madeline.
Place Published: London:
Publisher: Academy Editions,
Date Published: 1994.
Description: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 128 pages with over 240 illustrations mainly in color. The TRADE PAPERBACK, in illsutrated wrappers, is FINE. Wrappe notes read: "Continuing the collaboration of over 30 years between the New York-based artists Arakawa and Madeline Gins, this book is a unique and predominantly visual exploration into architecture and its centrality to the project of human self-knowledge and self-formation, carrying philosophical argument into the realm of construction. It asks what is the nature of perception? And how does the human being relate to surrounding space? Recording and 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 further, the book suggests a revolutionary re-invention of the planet and, by extension, the universe. Arakawa and Gina' 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 mentioned in the books' subtitle. An essay by Andrew Benjamin, and a selection of projects Site of Reversible Destiny (Gify, Japan); Reversible Destiny House I; the Bridge of Reversible Destiny (Espinal, France) and Double-Horizon Public Housing (Berlin, Germany) complete what amounts to a whole new turn to architecture and art-making alike."
Edition: First editionBinding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Fine
ISBN: 1854902792
Book Id: 9671
Price: $25.00
