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.
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 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.
"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.”
Every now and again we find something on the web, or in print or, in a museum, and say "Gosh! We should have had that up on the site a while ago." During some recent web-trolling we came across this fantastic little piece by Juhani Pallasmaa, the acclaimed Finish Architect, Professor and Artist.
...we can speculate about various readings of the kind of alien logic of geometry, math, and by extension mankind in the face of nature, or the apparent illumination (divine / cerebral illumination) of the natural by the geometric or we can muse about what the donkey might be thinking in the presence of an object that presumably it cannot possibly fathom...
The Agro-Housing prefab concept is a modern housing solution recognized last year at the 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing that blends urban and rural living by creating vertical greenhouse space within high-rise apartments. Developed with concern for predictions that 50% of China's one billion people will soon be living in cities, a trend mirrored in many developing countries in the world, the design of Knafo Klimor Architects allows tenants to produce their own food.