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…

On-Site Artist Projects at Russ Pitman Park

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signage, and environmentally friendly technology- artists will make scientific investigations, explorations, and historical references through installations and time-based events...

Interview: Prosthetic Lizard Homes

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.

Interview: Carla Novak

"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."

Panel Discussion at ArCH

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.
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Animal Architecture in the NY Times

“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.

An. Arch. at ArCH

You're invited to the 2011 Animal Architecture Awards opening at the Architecture Center Houston on Jan. 19th, 2012.

Animals in The Classroom

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.

Interview: Farmland World

..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...
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DUDYE.COM

Earlier this month our Editor in Chief was interviewed for his thoughts on design and how to Jury a Competition by the folks at DUDYE.com.

Interview: Nottingham Apiary Team

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...

2011 An. Arch. Awards Exhibition Opening

...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

Pet Architecture; Human’s Best Friend

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...
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My Client the Brown Bear

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?

Architecture in the Darwinian Arena II

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."

Commentary on Archinect

"..to me, this is not Animal Architecture. I feel they have taken a term that was already being used to describe other projects..." Visit Archinect to read the rest of the thread. Post a comment!

Interview with Ned Dodington

"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 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!

Architecture in the Darwinian Arena 1

One need only step into any meadow or marsh to recognize the capacity of nature to produce an incredible diversity of productive form(s). Although much of our understanding of the living world has changed...
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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.