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Today’s Doodle celebrates the 85th birthday of Japanese-American author, conceptual artist, and１ trans-humanist architect Shusaku Arakawa. Together with his wife, Arakawa chased a philosophical quest for immortality through experimental paintings, literature, and, at the grandest scale, architectural 2oddities−a concept coined Reversible Destiny.

Shusaku Arakawa was born on this day in 1936 in Nagoya, Japan. His early life was defined by mathematics and medicine studies before he pursued ３surrealist painting at Tokyo’s Musashino Art University. As an early adopter of the international conceptual art movement, he joined similarly minded artists after his 1961 move to New York City. Soon after, Shusako met a poet who became his lifelong artistic collaborator and spouse: Madeline Gins.

1　超人間主義
2　異質さ　風変わり
3　シュルレアリスト　超現実主義

In 1963, the couple began the ambitious 4“The Mechanism of Meaning” series−an assemblage of 83 large panel paintings crafted with the aim of investigating the mysteries of human consciousness that required over a decade to5 bring to fruition. Global exhibitions of the masterwork funded the couple’s next lofty endeavor: extending 6life expectancy by fostering a novel relationship with the built world called “procedural architecture.” They 7hypothesized that engaging residents with challenging interior designs, such as steep and uneven floor plans, would boost 8immunity and fight aging by promoting an active and thoughtful relationship with one’s surroundings. Their first residential works of procedural architecture can be found at Reversible Destiny Lofts, a complex in Tokyo and the inspiration for today’s Doodle artwork.

4　「意味のメカニズム」
5 達成する
6 平均余命
7　仮説を立てる
8 免疫

Arakawa and Gins devoted their lives to designing an architectural fountain of youth and founded multiple institutions to advance this project, including the Reversible Destiny Foundation. Today, several installations of their eccentric architecture remain open to the public, such as the Reversible Destiny Lofts. This renown project comprises a brightly colored residential complex in Tokyo that served as the couple’s first work of procedural architecture, which they dedicated to Helen Keller.

Happy birthday, Shusaku Arakawa!

美術家・荒川修作の生誕85周年記念でした。
「養老天命反転地」
「志段味循環型モデル住宅」
「三鷹天命反転住宅　In Memory of Helen Keller」などの建築芸術作品を遺しました。
Doodleは三鷹天命反転住宅を元にしたものですね。