Shusaku Arakawa
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Shusaku Arakawa (July 6, 1936 – May 18, 2010) was a Japanese artist. He studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Tokyo, and art at the Musashino Art University. Initially he worked with printmaking, using abstract and dada styles. He lived in New York since 1961.
Arakawa met his partner Madeline Gins in 1962. Together, they founded the Architectural Body Research Foundation. They have designed and built residences (Reversible Destiny Houses, Bioscleave House, Shidami Resource Recycling Model House) and parks (Site of Reversible Destiny-Yoro). They have 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 are, together and separately, the authors of several books and exhibition volumes, most recently Making Dying Illegal (ISBN 1931824223).
Filmography
- Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology (1970)
- For Example (1971)
Books by Arakawa and Gins
- The Mechanism of Meaning (Arakawa, 1971)
- 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)
See also
- Shusaku Arakawa, Next to the Last, 1971
