Field Notes from The Expanded Environment; Climate Control: The Rise of the CAFO
In two strikingly different cities, Paris and Chicago, we can trace the logic of the modernization of urban…
Field Notes from The Expanded Environment; Chicago Union Stockyards: A Genealogy of the Feedlot
Chicago Union Stockyards, 1947 Animal infrastructures are tied directly to larger forms of control and management which…
Field Notes from The Expanded Environment; An Introduction
Field Notes from the Expanded Environment will act as a research dossier for an eventual monograph problematizing more-than-human co-habitation within the expanded field of Interior Architecture. My intervention is to apply design-strategies from Adaptive Reuse to interior architectures of feedlots where architectural form becomes the technological delineator between human life and non human biocapital.
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.
Super-Size Park (Shelby Farms)
Field Operations aims to answer some of these questions through their design, which segments the park into these…
Harvest Green
image courtesy of ROMSES Architects Romses Architects recently won a competition for greener and denser development held by…
Agro-Housing
The Agro-Housing prefab concept is a modern housing solution recognized last year at the 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing that blends urban and rural living by creating vertical greenhouse space within high-rise apartments. Developed with concern for predictions that 50% of China's one billion people will soon be living in cities, a trend mirrored in many developing countries in the world, the design of Knafo Klimor Architects allows tenants to produce their own food.
Stone Barns Center
The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture was created from a 49,000 square foot complex of Norman-style barns,…
The Cook, The Farmer, His Wife, & Her Grocer
Wait. What does this have to do with animals? In many ways, the “animals” in these projects are…