This paper argues for the educational relevance of the apparently unbelievable project of the architects Arakawa and Gins to design houses that would grant their inhabitants immortality. First, the author demonstrates that, broadly conceived, this is a familiar philosophical project, perhaps "the" philosophical project. He then produces a reading of Gins and Arakawa's "Architectural Body" (2002) that suggests ways of conceiving the beginnings of their project within the tradition of aestheticism, the tradition that aims to make our lives beautiful. This is not immortality, but perhaps, by its Steinian refusal of identity, it is a beginning. (Contains 41 notes.)