Growing Up?

Another heated debate surrounding vertical farming is presented to us via AlterNet. This post, by Stan Cox and David Van Tassle, both plant-breeding researcher at the Land Institute in Salinas Kansas is decidedly on the anti-vertical farming side of things due to what the authors claim is the sheer impossibility of vertical farming.

The Truffle

... this project just might illustrate some of the conceptual shifts, that is posthumanist ideas, that appear elsewhere on this site, but have yet to make it into the architectural world. We don't have an award yet for "Most effective human animal partnership in the construction of a building" but if we did, Anton Garcia-Abril, that award would go to you sir. Well done.

Bug Hotel Competition

Bee part of the buzz – enter London’s unique architectural competition and be in with the chance of winning the highly desirable ‘Golden Beetle’ trophy. The City of London Corporation and British Land invite you to take part in the inaugural Beyond the Hive competition. The competition, designed to encourage biodiversity in the City of London, asks entrants to design a five star hotel for our insect friends.

Fritz Heag Wins Rome Prize

This year, among the many recipients is one of our previously featured artists, Fritz Haeg. We find Fritz's award particularly exciting because is recognizes his a-typical approach to practice and his unique focus on the habitats of other species as valuable to the practice of Architecture and Design. We first met Fritz at the Systems of Sustainability symposium at the University of Houston last year and have been closely watching his work since. Congratulations Fritz. This a great award for a so many reasons.

Animal Architecture Class

Work with professional artists and architects from international art collective Delta Arts and the Geffrye Museum to create a temporary architectural structure inspired by natural habitat systems to be exhibited at the Geffrye Museum.

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The time has come for Animal Architecture to expand. That’s right, we’re movin’ on up and we need…

Insect Art

More insect art comes to us this time through DeZeen Magazine. The images below show the work of…

Bee Sculptures

Simon Delobel from the Verbeke Foundation, (NL) recently wrote in to alert us to the works of Jef Faes. Jef Faes is a Belgian artist working in a particularly interesting medium -- bee hives.

One Year!

A year ago we posted our first entry on Animal Architecture and took on the mission to bring…

Natalie Jeremijenko and Nigel Snoad

Up-coming guest lecture by Natalie Jeremijenko, one of our favorite ecological engineers, along with Nigel Snoad of Microsoft on April 6th at Parson's Lang Center, in New York City.

Critical Ecologies Update

More information from Harvard GSD about the upcoming Critical Ecologies symposium on April 2nd and 3rd. Click the above image to download the poster! Stay tuned as Animal Architecture will be posting content and commentary throughout the event.

Temple on TED

We’ve posted a few times previously on Temple Grandin, and we’re very glad to see that she seems…

Vertical Farming Debated

This is something of an old debate (we posted on this same article in July), and also something of an old post. But the link is still getting comments so we thought we'd post it here in case anyone wants to jump back into duking it out over vertical gardens.

Macaws Deserve good Design Too

This just in from one of our readers and dear friends. The Architecture firm of Enric Batlle and Joan Roig has constructed new cages for the Macaw population in Barcellona's Parc de la Ciutadella

Zoosphere Revisited

Animal Architecture was present at the opening reception of Allison Hunter's Zoosphere this last Friday and we have to say that we were quite moved and impressed by the show. Allison has created an ethereal environment where animals, some projected large, some diminished, emerge out of the dark and enchant us.

Allison Hunter’s Zoosphere

March 12, 6 – 8pm at DiverseWorks Main Gallery: "...a transcendent, site-specific installation investigating humankind’s relationship to the natural world..."

The Wilding; Part 2

Bone has physically, conceptually, and metaphorically been associated with built structures throughout the history of architecture. Its use in common discourse is still pervasive today and critics, jurors, and architects will discuss the “skeleton” of the building.

“The deepest issue in the green movement”

Two days ago we responded to a post on Treehugger titled "Is genetically engineering animals to not feel pain really the solution to factory farming?" Treehugger in turn was responding to an op-ed piece in the New York Times. Our response both here on Animal Architecture and on Treehugger

Victimless Meat

A very interesting post on Treehugger is sure to spark some heated debate. Treehugger editor Matthew McDermott has…

David Bowen

We’ve just discovered (Via vegitecture) what may be, to our eyes, the most exciting plant-art artist around. David Bowen’s growth…

Lacuno-Architecture

As a guided missile, pointed in a wayward direction, Reiser and Umemoto continue, perhaps despite themselves to land on animism -- bony, trabecular animism. And maybe it’s no surprise.