Honey Bee

Honey Bee, an experimental video by artist Allison Hunter, explores the fascinating nature, fragility, and study of the Western honey bee using a combination of live and computer-constructed 3D footage. Hunter is known for photography and video that make people think about how they perceive and respond to elements of the world...

BRACKET [goes soft]

This just in: Bracket (an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have…

Call of the Wild

Call of the wild Chimp — that is. This year’s lecture series at the Houston Zoo kicks off…

Bibilographic Resources

Books cited here as well as generally helpful: Agamben, Giorgio. Means without End. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.…

Support

The Expanded Environment is a Non-Profit organization made possible through the generous support of numerous volunteers, donors and supporters.…

FERAL CITY

...from Seth Barnard, an architecture student at the Cooper Union. Seth's project, as he states, asks the simple question "What if we introduced [or re-introduced] zoological/ entomological/ botanical specimens into our everyday lives?" And we totally agree with you Seth. What if? What if we had a greater awareness of the animals already around us...
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Bat Tower

An interesting project came our way from a reader a few months ago and we’re working to provide…

Engineered Biotopes

An interesting project came to our attention via Bustler recently and is certainly worth checking out. The project is titled Engineered Biotopes and was developed by London-based teammates Anthi Grapsa and Konstantinos Chalaris.

Bug Hotel Winner Announced

The "Beevarian Antsel and Gretel Chalet" designed and constructed by the organisation ‘German Women in Property’ was selected from the shortlisted group of five entries...

Philip Beesley’s Hilozoic Soil

...the glass-like fragility of this artificial forest, built of an intricate lattice of small transparent acrylic tiles, is visually breathtaking. Its frond extremities arch uncannily towards those who venture into its midst, reaching out to stroke and be stroked like the feather or fur or hair of some mysterious animal.... [Fundacion Telefonica Jury, 1st prize, VIDA 11.0]

Ecological Urbanism

"Ecological Urbanism considers the city with multiple instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary focus...The book brings together practitioners, theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policymakers, scientists, and public health."

Man – Nature

After nearly two months of watching human animals (those working for BP) radically alter the gulf-coast ecosystem we…

The Gulf Coast Oyster

Where do the Gulf Coast Oysters fit into the BP Oil tragedy? Are they victims or saviors? Could they possibly hold the key to a massive gulf-coast clean up?

Daniel Arsham’s Animal Architecture

...we can speculate about various readings of the kind of alien logic of geometry, math, and by extension mankind in the face of nature, or the apparent illumination (divine / cerebral illumination) of the natural by the geometric or we can muse about what the donkey might be thinking in the presence of an object that presumably it cannot possibly fathom...

Welcome to Alex Tseng

Welcome Alex! Alex will be traveling the world for the next few months and then take up his preceptorship in NYC with the notable firm of DS+R. During his travels he'll stop in here to say a few words. We think you'll be a great addition to the Animal Architecture team.

TEDxHouston

For those of you who know TED and TEDx this is definitely a cause for excitement. For those of you new to the whole TED-thing we highly recommend checking it out.

Sukkah City

We’ve just discovered an exciting architecture competition coming up for registration on July 1st. ‘Sukkah City: New York…

Dam!

OTTAWA (AFP) – A Canadian ecologist has discovered the world's largest beaver dam in a remote area of northern Alberta, an animal-made structure so large it is visible from space.