2012 Awards: URBAN ANIMAL
URBAN ANIMAL; The 2012 Animal Architecture Awards. Animal Architecture wants your ideas about how synanthropic design can reshape, expand and redefine the context of urban thought and space.
Hive City Winners Announced
"Bee Tower" has been selected as the winning team for the very exciting Hive City Competition: “... the tower represent the cluster of material manufacturers around the site while housing the colony of bees.”
Hive City
Recently our friend and compatriot in animal architecture endeavors, Joyce Hwang at SUNY Buffalo, announced the second stage of Hive…
On-Site Artist Projects at Russ Pitman Park
Utilizing a variety of source materials- earth/organic, signage, and environmentally friendly technology- artists will make scientific investigations, explorations, and historical references through installations and time-based events...
Interview: Prosthetic Lizard Homes
I have always been inspired by the resilient and often rebellious way that other species interact with and adapt to our human built environments and (in our general arrogance) our under-estimation of the potential of inter-species collaboration and co-habitation. This to me has always been a territory which warrants further exploration.
Interview: Carla Novak
"Pigeon racing occupies an intriguing threshold between the domestic and the non-domestic. It seemed perfectly logical that a pigeon racing headquarters for a group of enthusiasts might materialize within an ordinary Victorian terraced house."
Panel Discussion at ArCH
Tonight at the ArCH (315 Capitol, Houston) @ 530pm.
Animal Architecture Panel with Ned Dodington, Jon LaRocca, Neeraj Bhatia, and Christopher Hight will discuss the Animal Architecture Award winning projects and their larger implications to architecture, design, and the human/animal divide.
Animal Architecture in the NY Times
“Nobody is talking about the animals that exist around our cities,” said Ned Dodington, a Rice University architecture graduate who, with a fellow alumnus, Jon LaRocca, conceived the competition as the next progression in the sustainability trend.
Animals in The Classroom
The burgeoning field of Animal Studies is among the the primary sources that have inspired and shaped Animal Architecture. In fact we can go as far as to say that without the theoretical framework laid for us by thinkers in the field (in our case primarily lead by Cary Wolfe and Christopher Hight at Rice University) Animal Architecture would look very different, or not exist at all.
Interview: Farmland World
..This type of erosion between a “nature” that is undisturbed and human intervention confronts us everyday and exploring this erosion is the basis for much of our speculative work. What started as an unconscious observation has turned into a passion for how these issues can be made architectural...
DUDYE.COM
Earlier this month our Editor in Chief was interviewed for his thoughts on design and how to Jury a Competition by the folks at DUDYE.com.
Interview: Nottingham Apiary Team
Our project stemmed from the fact human settlement had been exploiting the divide between us and other species for centuries, in large scale food production, monoculture and pollination...
2011 An. Arch. Awards Exhibition Opening
...the opening of the first Animal Architecture Awards Show this past week with a reception at Caroline Collective. The show will be on display at Caroline Collective through Nov. 28th. Party snap-shots and installation views of the show are below
Interview: SIMONE FERRACINA, Theriomorphous Cyborg
We've asked Simone Ferracina's to share with us a little bit more about the project, his process and the forces that drive his creativity. Enjoy!
Pet Architecture; Human’s Best Friend
In the Animal Architecture Competition Awards the tamed animal is easily taken for granted in projects which revere the productive//production character of farms and take it to the next level of safe robotics – tamed not to harm – or...
My Client the Brown Bear
But what if humankind builds for other creatures on earth? How would animals like to live? What wall color does a capybara prefer, how much space does a brown bear need? From what height do chamois need a balustrade? Do penguins like concrete?
Architecture in the Darwinian Arena 1
One need only step into any meadow or marsh to recognize the capacity of nature to produce an incredible diversity of productive form(s). Although much of our understanding of the living world has changed...
Darwinian Arena Prequel:
A page from Darwin’s Notebook B showing his sketch of the tree of life. Courtesy of the Complete Works…
Ryan Ludwig
It is our pleasure to formally introduce the newest addition to Animal Architecture, Ryan Ludwig. Ryan is an architectural practitioner and educator, he received his B. Arch. degree from Cornell University in 2004 and his post-professional M. Arch. II degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2009.
BIRD BUG BEAST
Art League Houston is delighted to present Indigenous Genius, a selection of artistic and scientific artifacts from the private collection of pioneering Ohio-based collector R.W. Northcutt, that chronicles the obscure yet poetic life of three particular wood-working animals the beaver, the woodpecker and the termite...
The Nature-Rights Movement or the “Law of Mother Earth”
In April we posted somewhat tangentially (Earth-day Post) about a progressive (as in back to the way things…
Welcome Lauren!
We are very pleased to announce a new addition to our ranks! Lauren Elachi has joined the Animal Architecture team as a contributing author. Be sure to look for her posts as they come through.
Oyster-Tecture
The Rising Currents exhibition at MoMA in 2010 featured one of our recent favorite projects here at Animal…
The Animal Architecture Awards: All Creatures Great and Small
Registration for the Animal Architecture Awards is now closed. Thanks and good luck to all of our contestants!
Interview with Joyce Hwang
A few months ago we posted on the Bat Tower, an exciting project by Joyce Hwang and her students at SUNY Buffalo. Recently we've had the chance to catch up with her and get some more details about the tower itself and what can happen when Animals get involved with Architecture.