Arakawa, the architect and artist whose buildings were supposed to help one live forever, has died . His wife and long-time collaborator, Madeline Gins comments:
“This mortality thing is bad news,” Ms. Gins said by phone from her studio on Houston Street. She said she would redouble her efforts to prove that “aging can be outlawed.”
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