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...

Animal Architecture Awards Announced!

Animal Architecture is proud to announce the winning entries for the 2011 Animal Architecture Awards. Congratulations to all of the entrants! Job well done!
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Urban Aeries / PURCH;

URBAN AERIES / PURCH (Positioned Urban Roosts for Civic Habitation) – is a combined exercise in engaging other alternate-architects (specifically birds here) in the production of co-species habitations.

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...

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.
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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…

Buenos Aires Vertical Zoo Competition 2010

While we might disagree with their claim to "organic cliff" and suggest something more like cactus, or termite hill, the basic idea of a highly malleable structure with variable porosity we think is right on track.

Winner! Adelaide Zoo

Earlier this month the Adelaide Zoo was garnered with an outstanding five awards to dominate this years Australian Institute of Architect's 2010 Australian Architecture Awards.

Urban Aeries

We're happy to announce that Melissa McDonnell, M.Arch '11, Rice University (in partnership with Animal Architecture's Ned Dodington) has won a prestigious RDA (Rice Design Alliance) Houston Initiatives Grant for a very cool project. The project is titled “Urban Aeries” and aims to design urban roosting habitats for Houston's migratory bird population.

UK Bat House

Two architecture students from the Architectural Association in London, Jorgen Tandberg from Oslo and Yo Murata from Tokyo…

Flight Path

This project comes from Marina Nicollier, a recent graduate of Rice University’s M. Arch program. The project was…

Fritz Haeg

We had the pleasure of meeting artist Fritz Haeg at the Systems of Sustainability Symposium held at the…