TEDXHouston Talk Online
Ned Dodington delivers an informational and entertaining TEDx Talk on why Animal Architecture is important and relevant to our world.
Thoughts on Barkitecture
Dog-houses and bird-houses have always made me somewhat uneasy. They are strange products and additionally strange terms. What does "house" mean to a bird or a dog? Moreover, what business do we have building homes for another species?
Next Nature with Joyce Hwang
As architects, we are operating in a landscape of shifting ecological and cultural values. We must not only develop strategies for incorporating diverse habitats into the spatial and built environment, but we must also take on the challenge to radically rethink the spatial and visible dimensions of animals and urban organisms.
Hannafore Tile-Pool
The Hannafore Tile-Pool subtly and cleverly utilizes already occurring ecological processes to make a simple walkway on the beach safer for humans and tidal species. The result is a tile system that actually traps small pools of water at low tide beneath a walkable and textured surface.
Garden Building for Humans and Butterflies
The GBHNCB, is a prototype for a garden building and a step in creating a network of environmentally-aware gardeners among the population of the city of Cali to take care of the rich local flora and fauna.
TEDxHouston
The other things...I invite you to imagine a world where one species’ living habits and environment does not infringe detrimentally on the habitat of another’s. Where, in fact a habitat, a building, a home, a house, a city, can be mutually beneficial to many species.
Bat Cloud
Bat Cloud, the winner of the 2012 Animal Architecture Awards, is an excellent example of how humans and other animal species, in this case one previously considered a pest, can re-align their relationship to develop new methods of a coexistence. The project is actual, it's imaginative and beautiful. Excellent work.
Built for Animals
Though we consider ourselves to be the official repository of all things Animal Architecture we can’t help but…
Ready, Willing and Able
The Expanded Environment is now for offering our professional services to the public. We welcome collaborations, development opportunities, public outreach and good-old work for hire.
Bird-friendly Masonry
A project for bird-bricks was recently pointed in our direction and it immediately reminded us of the 2011 Animal…
Land, Sea and Air
The project proposes to construct dwellings in an appropriate form along the river bank. A central focus of the project is to address concerns about the impact on the environment around the site. This led to an in-depth study of the local wildlife, looking at ways in which these dwellings also could be conceived to create habitats for specific animals other than humans.
International Architecture Festival
In April of this year Animal Architecture was invited to participate in the annual International Architecture Festival at the Westchester Academy for International Studies in Houston.
A Monstrous Architecture Part 3
Monstrosity is made manifest in various ways across the discipline of Architecture. This is the third and final installment of a joint editorial project on the topic of Monstrosity in architecture and design. We pick up where the last installment ended describing several types of Monstrous Architectures; previously we had discussed the Hopeful Monster and now we continue with Frankesteins, Imposters and Aliens.
How to Design with the Animal
Announcing: "How to Design with the Animal" - the first major edition/collection of seminal texts relating to Animal Architecture is now for sale on Lulu.com.
The collected writings and projects included in HDA provide the conceptual foundation for understanding Animal Architecture project, that is to say the radically inclusive ecologically responsible design-ethos for the built world.
A Monstrous Architecture part 2
"A Monstrous Architecture," is a serialized collaboration between Ryan Ludwig (previous contributor to Animal Architecture and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University) and Ned Dodington. In 2011-2012 Ryan and Ned had collaborated on a series of posts title Architecture in the Darwinian Arena.
A Monstrous Architecture Part 1
The influence of bio-politics has reached a level of saturation in architecture and architectural practice. No longer are architects primarily concerned with simply constructing beautiful and functional structures but are increasingly obsessed with the role and position of life and living system in their projects.
Sou Fugimoto’s Serpentine Pavilion
Yesterday the Serpentine Gallery announced that Sou Fugimoto has been selected to design the 2013 Serpentine Pavilion, a temporary…
Mess-Mate Co-Designers
The place of human-kind is in a precarious state these days. The human link in the web of life is daily being gently eroded by developments in science, animal-studies and by thinkers and philosophers such as Donna Haraway, quoted above. This is not necessarily a problem or bad thing, but simply a change, an opportunity.
Architecture’s Next Companion Species
Animal Architecture founder and editor Edward (Ned) Dodington has recently been selected to present current research on the role and importance of extra-human collaboration in architectural practice at the 101 ACSA conference (March 21-24, 2013, San Francisco).
BRKT2 Book Launch @ ARCH
Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises—economic, ecological and climatic, amongst others—the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems.
2011 Animal Architecture Awards at Phoenicia
The 2011 Animal Architecture Awards continue their tour around the Texas area with their arrival at MKT Bar, located inside Phoenicia Specialty Foods, Downtown Market location.
Bracket 2. Goes Soft
Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises—economic, ecological and climatic, amongst others—the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems.
Regarding Hurricane Sandy
Like many of us I watched with heightened anticipation as Hurricane Sandy strengthened, diminished and then strengthened again as she made her way towards the east coast of the United States...
2012 in Review
2012 was a big year for Animal Architecture. The 2012 Urban Animal Awards were announced – our biggest…
Scaffolding City
In an expanding and increasingly volatile world an anachronistic model of architecture and urbanism based on planning, authority, history and permanence has less and less ability to solve today’s economic and ecological problems.