ARAKAWA + GINS

ARAKAWA + GINS “Studio Wall” as re-imagined by the facilitators, 2021.

All Images: Copyright 1997- 2021, Estate of Madeline Gins,  reproduced with permission of  the Estate of Madeline Gins.  Courtesy of the Reversible Destiny  Foundation. Portraits of Arakawa and Madeline Gins at 124 W Houston Street, New York, by Dimitris Yeros, 2000. **see full list of images**

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In collaboration with the Reversible Destiny Foundation, [move_semantics] invites visitors into a recreation of the working environment of Arakawa & Gins conceived of, designed, and realized by the curators, with an installation of posters, texts, schematics, renderings, photos, and other documentation of their many years of visionary practice based out of their studio (and home) at 124 West Houston Street. Together, Arakawa & Gins developed the philosophy of “procedural architecture,” famously proclaiming that “we have decided not to die,” and proposing myriad ways in which the built environment might help the human “organism-that -persons” escape being lulled into complacency by architecture’s banal and predatory forms.