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.
Updates on Hive City!
Elevator B[ee] is an iconic gesture of the regeneration of the Silo City site, both naturally and economically. The material properties of the tower represent the cluster of material manufactures around the site while housing the colony of bees.
PURCH at RP Park
...a continuation of my work which in a broad sense is interested in using architecture and design to bridge "the species gap." This endeavor sometimes takes the shape of forming connections, illustrating overlaps, and exposing inconsistencies in our anthropocentric world-view. Or, in the case of R.P Park, making bird feeders ...
Rising Currents
As the East Coast continues to recover from Sandy we are reminded of Rising Currents, an exhibition of several high-caliber projects actively mining local NYC ecology to save the city in the event of rising sea levels.
Urban Animal Award Winners
It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the 2012 Animal Architecture Awards. This year saw an impressive range of projects from around the globe. Each of the projects, individually and collectively, demonstrate new and encouraging ways for us to live more fully in this world.
Zoo: A Brief History Part 1
The history of the zoo is both expansive and detailed, present in some form at almost all times in human society. It is no surprise then that the story of zoos can reflect larger trends in humanist and extra-humanist thought. In that light, we are happy to present for your reading enjoyment a series of posts about zoos throughout the ages.
Inside the World of Animal Architecture
What if humans weren't the central focus of architecture? What if the design process included the needs wildlife? Tyler Rudick delves into the world of Animal Architecture in this issue of CultureMap.
Proposal: Animal Architecture Commission
Synergy Housing is looking to commission an artist or designer to design and build a piece of ‘animal architecture’ (such as bird or bat boxes, bee housing) to be integrated into, and replicated throughout the seven development sites in Littlemoor.
Nest Works
Nestworks – ‘assisted readymades’ for urban birds. 51% Studios 2011 Animal Architecture Award Honorable Mention. 2010 saw…
The Architectural Animal
These are the posts that started it all. Three years ago this series of seven posts started the project called Animal Architecture. Much has changed in that time and much has been accomplished. But despite new topics, advancements or other occurances these seven posts continue to be the foundation for the work of Animal Architecture...
The Architectural Animal; Part 2
The second installment of The Architectural Animal continues the investigation of co-species cohabitation by taking a look at…
The Architectural Animal; Part 3
Continued from The Architectural Animal part 2. …Monster, like the animal, is yet another category that features prominently…
The Architectural Animal; part 4
Continued from The Architectural Animal: Part 3 MONSTROUS LANDSCAPES “Landscape” is, again like the terms “monster” and “animal”…
The Architectural Animal: Part 5
Adriaan Geuze of West 8 Illustration This week’s Architectural Animal continues our discussion of how to design WITH…
The Architectural Animal: Part 6
Ethological Diagrams of influence. Left: J.von Uexkull’s umwelt diagram Right: Nikolass Tinbergen’s ethological diagram. This week’s segment of…
The Architectural Animal: Part 7, The Terroir
Hyper Site Specificity and Strategic Accumulation This week’s segment of the Architectural Animal illustrates a potential solution to…
Zoo: A Brief History Part 2
The "cabinets of curiosities", traveling displays of imperialism and private collection of the aristocracy remained the norm for the display of animal life until the second-half of the eighteenth-century, when the diversity of animals increased and fixed menageries began to appear...
Animal Architecture Goes to Dallas
The 2011 Animal Architecture Awards, All Creatures Great and Small, will be on display this fall in Dallas. Go check it out!
Building For Birds: Avian-friendly Skyscrapers
NPR: Every year millions of birds fly headlong into sleek glass and steel skyscrapers all over the country. Can a better glass save these co-urbanites?
Birding Hotel
Here’s a project by Morris Architects that was a runner up in a 2009 hospitality design competition called…
Tower of Nests
...best of all, one is lead to believe that over time the density of the structure will increase with all of the small materials brought along by the various inhabitants, growing thicker, heavier and stronger with the passage of life and time.