The Funambulist Pamphlets 8: Arakawa + Madeline Gins
- Edited by Léopold Lambert
- Contributions by Russel Hughes
Published on March 12, 2014 by CTM Documents Initiative, an imprint of punctum books
- Pages
- 106 pages
- Languages
- English
- Dimensions
- 4.25⤫6.88 in.
- ISBN (Paperback)
- ISBN: 978-0-615-98783-5 (Paperback)
- ISBN (PDF)
- ISBN: 978-0-615-98783-5 (PDF)
- BISAC subject codes
- BISAC: ARC013000
- Thema subject codes
- THEMA: AMA
The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist(opens in new tab), collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Science Fiction, Literature, and Cinema. See all published pamphlets HERE(opens in new tab).
Volume 8 is dedicated to The Reversible Destiny Foundation created by Arakawa and Madeline Gins. The Foundation is much more than an architectural practice. It articulates art, philosophy, poetry, architecture and, to some extent, science in a dialogue that benefits each of these disciplines and ultimately serves one of the most radical ideas that apply to architecture: the action of non-dying. Guest authors include Shingo Tsuji, Stanley Shostak, Russell Hughes, and Jean-François Lyotard.
Also in this set
This book is part of a 11-volume set. Other volumes in the set are:
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 1: Spinoza
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 2: Foucault
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 3: Deleuze
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 4: Legal Theory
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 5: Occupy Wall Street
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 6: Palestine
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 7: Cruel Designs
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 9: Science Fiction
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 10: Literature
- The Funambulist Pamphlets 11: Cinema
Biographies
Léopold Lambert (born in 1985) is a French architect who has lived in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai and currently resides in New York. His approach to architecture consists in a delicate articulation between theoretical research and a frank enthusiasm for design. Such an articulation has been explicated in his book Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence(opens in new tab) (dpr-barcelona, 2012), which attempts to examine the characteristics that make architecture an inherent political weapon through global research as well as an architectural project specific to the Israeli civil and military occupation of the West Bank. He is also the author of the graphic novel, Lost in the Line(opens in new tab). He finds his architectural inspiration from films, novels, and political philosophy books, rather than in architectural theory texts. He is currently collaborating with Madeline Gins for her Reversible Destiny Foundation(opens in new tab) (created with the late Arakawa) whose philosophical and architectural work is highly influential upon the role of architecture in relation to the human body.
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Genres
- Art+Aesthetics
- Built Environments
- Cultural Studies+Critical Theory
Keywords
- Arakawa
- architecture
- design
- Madeline Gins
- mortality