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Urban Animal Award Winners

It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the 2012 Animal Architecture Awards. This year saw an impressive range of projects from around the globe. Each of the projects, individually and collectively, demonstrate new and encouraging ways for us to live more fully in this world.
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Zoo: A Brief History Part 1

The history of the zoo is both expansive and detailed, present in some form at almost all times in human society. It is no surprise then that the story of zoos can reflect larger trends in humanist and extra-humanist thought. In that light, we are happy to present for your reading enjoyment a series of posts about zoos throughout the ages.
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Inside the World of Animal Architecture

What if humans weren't the central focus of architecture? What if the design process included the needs wildlife? Tyler Rudick delves into the world of Animal Architecture in this issue of CultureMap.
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Proposal: Animal Architecture Commission

Synergy Housing is looking to commission an artist or designer to design and build a piece of ‘animal architecture’ (such as bird or bat boxes, bee housing) to be integrated into, and replicated throughout the seven development sites in Littlemoor.
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Nest Works

Nestworks – ‘assisted readymades’ for urban birds. 51% Studios 2011 Animal Architecture Award Honorable Mention.   2010 saw…

The Architectural Animal

These are the posts that started it all. Three years ago this series of seven posts started the project called Animal Architecture. Much has changed in that time and much has been accomplished. But despite new topics, advancements or other occurances these seven posts continue to be the foundation for the work of Animal Architecture...

Zoo: A Brief History Part 2

The "cabinets of curiosities", traveling displays of imperialism and private collection of the aristocracy remained the norm for the display of animal life until the second-half of the eighteenth-century, when the diversity of animals increased and fixed menageries began to appear...
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Birding Hotel

Here’s a project by Morris Architects that was a runner up in a 2009 hospitality design competition called…

Tower of Nests

...best of all, one is lead to believe that over time the density of the structure will increase with all of the small materials brought along by the various inhabitants, growing thicker, heavier and stronger with the passage of life and time.
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Our Animal Natures

Seeing too much of ourselves in other animals might not be the problem we think it is. Underappreciating our own animal natures may be the greater limitation.
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Call for work:

Recognizing that students represent the next generation of leaders and design innovators, SHIFT provides a scholarly and provocative forum for professional-reviewed student research into emerging issues at the forefront of landscape architecture theory and practice.

The Animal Art of Shannon Partridge

The principle of ‘behavioural enrichment’ is an animal husbandry tactic deployed to enhance the lives of captive animals, provoking thought and encouraging activity, by introducing variant stimuli to their otherwise static environments.

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…

Bear 71

“It’s hard to say where the wired world ends and the wired world begins.” As part of the…