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Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa were artistic and architectural collaborators known for their avant-garde works that merged visual art, architecture, and philosophy. Arakawa (1936-2010) was a Japanese artist and architect, while Gins (1941-2014) was an American artist, writer, and poet. Together, they developed the concept of “Reversible Destiny,” challenging conventional perceptions of space and the human body’s relationship to its environment. Their designs, like the Reversible Destiny Lofts in Tokyo, often featured unconventional shapes, vibrant colors, and disorienting layouts intended to stimulate the senses and provoke thought about the nature of human existence. Their work has had a lasting influence on both contemporary art and architectural theory.
Architectural procedures must be reinvented, not so that people can acquire more and more expertise, but so that they will take the initiative to install themselves within a manifold, unassimilable…
The Site of Reversible Destiny is an “experience park” opened in 1995 designed by Nagoya-born, New York-based artist Arakawa Shusaku and his wife and artistic partner, poet Madeline Gins. The theme of…
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The Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA – In Memory of Helen Keller – built by Arakawa and Madeline Gins in 2005, were the first residential works of “procedural architecture” designed with…
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