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Call of the Wild
Call of the wild Chimp — that is. This year’s lecture series at the Houston Zoo kicks off…
Kate Orff – Saving the Planet with Oysters
Late last year Kate Orff (of SCAPE) participated in the Rising Currents exhibition at New York’s MoMA. We…
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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...
Bat Tower
An interesting project came our way from a reader a few months ago and we’re working to provide…
Interactive Fish Display
This comes to us from Natalie Jeremijenko, one of the foremost Animal Architecture thinkers and developers. In fact…
Engineered Biotopes
An interesting project came to our attention via Bustler recently and is certainly worth checking out. The project is titled Engineered Biotopes and was developed by London-based teammates Anthi Grapsa and Konstantinos Chalaris.
Bug Hotel Winner Announced
The "Beevarian Antsel and Gretel Chalet" designed and constructed by the organisation ‘German Women in Property’ was selected from the shortlisted group of five entries...
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."
Man – Nature
After nearly two months of watching human animals (those working for BP) radically alter the gulf-coast ecosystem we…
The Gulf Coast Oyster
Where do the Gulf Coast Oysters fit into the BP Oil tragedy? Are they victims or saviors? Could they possibly hold the key to a massive gulf-coast clean up?
Beyond the Hive: Competition Shortlist
A few weeks ago we reported a competition in the UK to design five-star hotels for British insects.…
Daniel Arsham’s Animal Architecture
...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...
Welcome to Alex Tseng
Welcome Alex! Alex will be traveling the world for the next few months and then take up his preceptorship in NYC with the notable firm of DS+R. During his travels he'll stop in here to say a few words. We think you'll be a great addition to the Animal Architecture team.
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.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO: CONNECTED ENVIRONMENTS
Natalie produces engineered systems that invite participation, document change over time, and suggest alternative courses of action that are ethical and sustainable.
Sukkah City
We’ve just discovered an exciting architecture competition coming up for registration on July 1st. ‘Sukkah City: New York…
Dam!
OTTAWA (AFP) – A Canadian ecologist has discovered the world's largest beaver dam in a remote area of northern Alberta, an animal-made structure so large it is visible from space.
Growing Up?
Another heated debate surrounding vertical farming is presented to us via AlterNet. This post, by Stan Cox and David Van Tassle, both plant-breeding researcher at the Land Institute in Salinas Kansas is decidedly on the anti-vertical farming side of things due to what the authors claim is the sheer impossibility of vertical farming.
The Truffle
... this project just might illustrate some of the conceptual shifts, that is posthumanist ideas, that appear elsewhere on this site, but have yet to make it into the architectural world. We don't have an award yet for "Most effective human animal partnership in the construction of a building" but if we did, Anton Garcia-Abril, that award would go to you sir. Well done.