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.
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.
"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.”
Utilizing a variety of source materials- earth/organic, signage, and environmentally friendly technology- artists will make scientific investigations, explorations, and historical references through installations and time-based events...
I have always been inspired by the resilient and often rebellious way that other species interact with and adapt to our human built environments and (in our general arrogance) our under-estimation of the potential of inter-species collaboration and co-habitation. This to me has always been a territory which warrants further exploration.
"Pigeon racing occupies an intriguing threshold between the domestic and the non-domestic. It seemed perfectly logical that a pigeon racing headquarters for a group of enthusiasts might materialize within an ordinary Victorian terraced house."
Tonight at the ArCH (315 Capitol, Houston) @ 530pm.
Animal Architecture Panel with Ned Dodington, Jon LaRocca, Neeraj Bhatia, and Christopher Hight will discuss the Animal Architecture Award winning projects and their larger implications to architecture, design, and the human/animal divide.
“Nobody is talking about the animals that exist around our cities,” said Ned Dodington, a Rice University architecture graduate who, with a fellow alumnus, Jon LaRocca, conceived the competition as the next progression in the sustainability trend.
The burgeoning field of Animal Studies is among the the primary sources that have inspired and shaped Animal Architecture. In fact we can go as far as to say that without the theoretical framework laid for us by thinkers in the field (in our case primarily lead by Cary Wolfe and Christopher Hight at Rice University) Animal Architecture would look very different, or not exist at all.
..This type of erosion between a “nature” that is undisturbed and human intervention confronts us everyday and exploring this erosion is the basis for much of our speculative work. What started as an unconscious observation has turned into a passion for how these issues can be made architectural...
Our project stemmed from the fact human settlement had been exploiting the divide between us and other species for centuries, in large scale food production, monoculture and pollination...
...the opening of the first Animal Architecture Awards Show this past week with a reception at Caroline Collective. The show will be on display at Caroline Collective through Nov. 28th. Party snap-shots and installation views of the show are below
In the Animal Architecture Competition Awards the tamed animal is easily taken for granted in projects which revere the productive//production character of farms and take it to the next level of safe robotics – tamed not to harm – or...
But what if humankind builds for other creatures on earth? How would animals like to live? What wall color does a capybara prefer, how much space does a brown bear need? From what height do chamois need a balustrade? Do penguins like concrete?
This week continues the discussion between N. Dodington and R. Ludwig on the role of biology in Architecture. For background information and for previous discussions please visit the Darwinian Arena under "Posts."
"..to me, this is not Animal Architecture. I feel they have taken a term that was already being used to describe other projects..."
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"I've had a twin obsession with biology and architecture for quite some time, probably more than a decade at this point. That interest has taken me to some extremes stylistically and theoretically with respect to my work but had never really felt fun or natural..."
Animal Architecture is proud to announce the winning entries for the 2011 Animal Architecture Awards. Congratulations to all of the entrants! Job well done!