Shusaku Arakawa

Infobox Musical artist


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Name = Arakawa
Born = birth date and age|1936|7|6
flagicon|Japan Nagoya, Japan
Occupation(s) = Artist, Architect
URL = [http://www.reversibledestiny.org www.reversibledestiny.org] nihongo|Arakawa|荒川 修作|Arakawa|extra=born July 6, 1936 in Nagoya is a Japanese artist and architect. 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 has lived in New York since 1961.

Arakawa met his partner Madeline Gins in 1963. 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).

Books by Arakawa and Gins

*"Word Rain" (Gins, 1969)
*"The Mechanism of Meaning" (Arakawa & Gins, 1971)
*"Intend" (Gins, 1973)
*"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)

External links

* [http://www.reversibledestiny.org/abrf.php Architectural Body Research Foundation]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/garden/03destiny.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin A House Not for Mere Mortals]
* [http://www.yoro-park.com/e/rev/ Site of Reversible Destiny - Yoro]
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/18673/shusaku-arakawa.html Gallery at artnet.com]
* [http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/ArtistKeywords.aspx?searchtype=KEYWORDS&artist=78954 Facts and reference at askart.com]
* [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/10549 Reference at artfacts.net]
* [http://www.plazm.com/magazine/features/archive/reversible-destiny The Reversible Destiny: Architecture of Arakawa & Madeline Gins, Plazm magazine article]