The Urban Rookery
Rookery: a colony of breeding animals, generally birds. A rookery is generally reserved for a colony of gregarious…
Cities, Semantics & Approaches to ‘WILD’
Meanings of WILD transmitted through languages have direct implications on how we plan our cities.
Other Coworkers: Animals in the Workplace
History would suggest that a coworking relationship between humans and nonhumans is rarely equal and is typically characterized by subjugation, sadness, and a controlled population expansion of “useful” species. GBHB demonstrates that another more equitable, more beneficial, more respectful cross-species coworking environment is possible.
Art-value of Biological Growth on Buildings
The art value of the co-created landscape cannot be ignored. The biological growth elevates the value of the wall into that of a unique sculpture.
An Enquiry into Production of Public Sculptures of Animals in Calcutta
As we are able to replicate the natural world in a synthetic medium, it becomes important to question the processes that lead to the existence of the animal sculptures.
Wild Growth in Cities as a Rare Resource
A tour of the old city of Calcutta reveals that while biological growth can threaten to destroy buildings' structures, conservation and management of growth can also enhance the age-value and identity of the city.
Cities: Home for Wildlife, Lacking Wilderness
If cities can be programmed with the character of wilderness, the urban can draw benefits of wonderment, motion, colour and interaction.
A Mongoose Family Visits Home
It was February 7 2018, when animal screams outside my bedroom door woke me up in the middle of the night.
Anthropocene Mag.
Tiny houses and great cathedrals, carbon-neutral skyscrapers and Airstream trailers: architecture is among the greatest of human crafts. Just imagine if the same ingenuity and vision were devoted to building homes for animals.
On Resiliency; Part 2
Previously, I had outlined thoughts about current happenings and the implications of resilience to enframe not only human but non-human subjectivity into a state-sanctioned political apparatus. I’m interested to add two other voices to this discussion - Timothy Morton and Tim Ingold.
Soft Structures
Soft Structures reflect a different philosophy with regard to the human/animal question. Rather than to presume a sense of synthesis, where biological beings cohabit equally, Soft Structure projects present a strategy based on mediated coexistence, often with reduced human impact.
Regarding Hurricane Sandy
Like many of us I watched with heightened anticipation as Hurricane Sandy strengthened, diminished and then strengthened again as she made her way towards the east coast of the United States...
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.
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
On “The Wilding”
Last week we posted the first serialized work in our new section titled “The Wilding.” The Wilding is…
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.