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Madeline Gins is an American

United States

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Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

, architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

, and poet

Poet

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Madeline Gins met her partner, the artist Arakawa

Shusaku Arakawa

was a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades.-Life:...

, in 1963. Together, they founded the Architectural Body Research Foundation. They have designed and built residences (Reversible Destiny Lofts – Mitaka, 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.

Books by Arakawa and Gins

Word Rain (Gins, 1969)
The Mechanism of Meaning (Arakawa and Gins, 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)

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