Animal Superpowers

We all know that animals have some pretty neat evolutionary tricks up their sleeves. But Kenichi Okada and Chris Woebken have a few of their own. This creative duo have designed three toys called Animal Superpowers...

ARC Wildlife Crossing

The ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition (ARC) has brought together landscape architects, engineers, and ecologists to create a proposed wildlife crossing structure in Colorado.

Monist Kingdoms

This project comes to us from Max Hooper Schneider, a graduating landscape architecture student at the Harvard GSD. …

Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

The Institute for Figuring has created quite possibly one of the world's largest community art projects - the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef. Christine and Margaret Wertheim, the project's founders, describe their creation as "a woolly celebration..."

Amphibious Architecture

A couple years back, we posted on a collaborative project between The Living, Chris Woebken, and Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Health Clinic. The now completed Amphibious Architecture project seeks to captivate participants by immersing them into the ebbs and flows of aquatic ecosystems...

Welcome Lauren!

We are very pleased to announce a new addition to our ranks! Lauren Elachi has joined the Animal Architecture team as a contributing author. Be sure to look for her posts as they come through.

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.

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...

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…

Call for Web Designers!

Are you a freelance web designer? Are you familiar with Wordpress and currently living in the Houston Tx area? We need you! Animal Architecture has crossed yet another readership threshold and well, we feel like it's time for a little upgrade.

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.

[On Farming] Release Event

Bracket is a new book series that highlights emerging critical issues at the juncture of architecture,environment, and digital culture. Conceived as an almanac, the series looks at emerging themesthat are shaping the built environment in radically signifi cant, yet often unexpected ways.

Dr. Ken Yeang

The premise is that there is no one single best approach to achieving green design, but a number of ways to arrive at the same goal. The presentation presents five propositions.

Sukkah City FINALISTS announced

12 finalists for the Radically Temporal Sukkah in Union Square, NYC have been announced and it's an impressive line-up of talent and creative interpretation. Projects range from the poetic Sukkah of of Signs to the highly conceptual LOG.

Pecha Kucha Talk follow Up.

Houston Pecha Kucha Vol. 3 was a big success. Thanks to Tony Medrano and all the attending guests for making it a fun and inspiring night. We look forward to doing it again!

Animal Architecture: Pecha Kucha #3, Houston

Animal Architecture Founder and Editor Ned Dodington will be speaking at Houston's Pecha Kucha Vol. 3 event this Thursday (8/26/10) at Domy Books. If you're not familiar with Pecha Kucha it's a whirlwind of slides, ideas and creative talks and we're excited to be part of it.