TY - BOOK ID - 136300387 TI - Architecture and Philosophy AU - Lecercle, Jean-Jacques AU - Arakawa, Shūsaku AU - Gins, Madeline AU - Kral, Françoise AU - Benesch, Klaus PY - 2010 SN - 9042031905 9789042031906 9789042031890 9042031891 PB - Amsterdam Editions Rodopi DB - UniCat KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - History KW - Arakawa, Shūsaku, KW - Gina, Madeline KW - Themes, motives. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136300387 AB - 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. ER -