About Arakawa and Gins

Since 1963, artists-architects-poets Arakawa and Madeline Gins have worked in collaboration to produce visionary, boundary-defying art and architecture. Their seminal work, The Mechanism of Meaning, has been exhibited widely throughout the world. In 1987, as a means of financing the design and construction of works of procedural architecture that draw on The Mechanism of Meaning, extending its theoretical implications into the environment, Arakawa and Gins founded the Architectural Body Research Foundation. The Foundation actively collaborates with leading practitioners in a wide-range of disciplines including, but not limited to, experimental biology, neuroscience, quantum physics, experimental phenomenology, and medicine. Architectural projects have included residences (Reversible Destiny Houses, Bioscleave House, Shidami Resource Recycling Model House), parks (Site of Reversible Destiny-Yoro) and plans for housing complexes and neighborhoods (Isle of Reversible Destiny-Venice and Isle of Reversible Destiny-Fukuoka, Sensorium City, Tokyo).

ARCHITECTURAL BODY RESEARCH FOUNDATION

MADELINE GINS

In 1987, founded with Arakawa Architectural Body Research Foundation (formerly Containers of Mind Foundation). In 1963, began collaborating with Arakawa on the research project The Mechanism of Meaning. Graduated from Barnard College, 1962. Born November 7, 1941, in New York, where she now resides.

ARAKAWA

In 1987, founded with Architectural Body Research Foundation (formerly Containers of Mind Foundation) with Madeline Gins. In 1963, began collaborating with Madeline Gins on the research project The Mechanism of Meaning. Arrived in New York, where he now resides. Born in Japan 1936.