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...

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...

Call of the Wild

Call of the wild Chimp — that is. This year’s lecture series at the Houston Zoo kicks off…

[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.

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.

Philip Beesley’s Hilozoic Soil

...the glass-like fragility of this artificial forest, built of an intricate lattice of small transparent acrylic tiles, is visually breathtaking. Its frond extremities arch uncannily towards those who venture into its midst, reaching out to stroke and be stroked like the feather or fur or hair of some mysterious animal.... [Fundacion Telefonica Jury, 1st prize, VIDA 11.0]

Ecological Urbanism

"Ecological Urbanism considers the city with multiple instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary focus...The book brings together practitioners, theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policymakers, scientists, and public health."

xSpecies Adventure Club

Eyebeam hosts the Cross Species (xSpecies) Adventure Club, a supper club for humans and non-humans to explore a tasty bio-diverse future. Each event is an experience of the depth and complexity of our interconnections with nonhumans...

TEDxHouston

For those of you who know TED and TEDx this is definitely a cause for excitement. For those of you new to the whole TED-thing we highly recommend checking it out.

Sukkah City

We’ve just discovered an exciting architecture competition coming up for registration on July 1st. ‘Sukkah City: New York…

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.

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.

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.

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..."

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin, renowned animal behaviorist and designer of livestock processing facilities, will be holding a book signing in…