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.

Ryan Ludwig

It is our pleasure to formally introduce the newest addition to Animal Architecture, Ryan Ludwig. Ryan is an architectural practitioner and educator, he received his B. Arch. degree from Cornell University in 2004 and his post-professional M. Arch. II degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2009.

Architecture Inside the Darwinian Arena

This post marks the beginning of an experimental series of entries on Animal Architecture titled “Architecture in the Darwinian Arena.” One of the major missions of Animal Architecture is to instigate and provoke large-frame discussion about the role of biology in design /Architecture

IceLink

In response to the International Ideas Competition for the Bering Strait, Lateral Office‘s Mason White and Lola Sheppard…

BIRD BUG BEAST

Art League Houston is delighted to present Indigenous Genius, a selection of artistic and scientific artifacts from the private collection of pioneering Ohio-based collector R.W. Northcutt, that chronicles the obscure yet poetic life of three particular wood-working animals the beaver, the woodpecker and the termite...

Animal Superpowers

We all know that animals have some pretty neat evolutionary tricks up their sleeves. But Kenichi Okada and Chris Woebken have a few of their own. This creative duo have designed three toys called Animal Superpowers...

ARC Wildlife Crossing

The ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition (ARC) has brought together landscape architects, engineers, and ecologists to create a proposed wildlife crossing structure in Colorado.

Monist Kingdoms

This project comes to us from Max Hooper Schneider, a graduating landscape architecture student at the Harvard GSD. …

Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

The Institute for Figuring has created quite possibly one of the world's largest community art projects - the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef. Christine and Margaret Wertheim, the project's founders, describe their creation as "a woolly celebration..."

Amphibious Architecture

A couple years back, we posted on a collaborative project between The Living, Chris Woebken, and Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Health Clinic. The now completed Amphibious Architecture project seeks to captivate participants by immersing them into the ebbs and flows of aquatic ecosystems...

Welcome Lauren!

We are very pleased to announce a new addition to our ranks! Lauren Elachi has joined the Animal Architecture team as a contributing author. Be sure to look for her posts as they come through.

Oyster-Tecture

The Rising Currents exhibition at MoMA in 2010 featured one of our recent favorite projects here at Animal…

Interview with Joyce Hwang

A few months ago we posted on the Bat Tower, an exciting project by Joyce Hwang and her students at SUNY Buffalo. Recently we've had the chance to catch up with her and get some more details about the tower itself and what can happen when Animals get involved with Architecture.

Honey Bee

Honey Bee, an experimental video by artist Allison Hunter, explores the fascinating nature, fragility, and study of the Western honey bee using a combination of live and computer-constructed 3D footage. Hunter is known for photography and video that make people think about how they perceive and respond to elements of the world...

BRACKET [goes soft]

This just in: Bracket (an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have…

Call of the Wild

Call of the wild Chimp — that is. This year’s lecture series at the Houston Zoo kicks off…