Critical Ecologies Colloquium (0)
3/08/10 •
April 2nd and 3rd, 2010 // Harvard University GSD
We know it’s a ways away but we should all start making plans to attend the Critical Ecologies Colloquium at Harvard this coming spring. The event is coordinated by Chris Reed of Stoss Landscape Urbanism and Charles Waldheim, Chair of the department of Landscape Architecture at the [...]
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Allison Hunter’s Zoosphere (0)
3/04/10 •
March 12, 6 – 8pm at DiverseWorks Main Gallery: “…a transcendent, site-specific installation investigating humankind’s relationship to the natural world…”
The Wilding; Part 2 (0)
3/02/10 •
Bone has physically, conceptually, and metaphorically been associated with built structures throughout the history of architecture. Its use in common discourse is still pervasive today and critics, jurors, and architects will discuss the “skeleton” of the building.
“The deepest issue in the green movement” (0)
2/25/10 •
Two days ago we responded to a post on Treehugger titled “Is genetically engineering animals to not feel pain really the solution to factory farming?” Treehugger in turn was responding to an op-ed piece in the New York Times. Our response both here on Animal Architecture and on Treehugger
Victimless Meat (6)
2/23/10 •
A very interesting post on Treehugger is sure to spark some heated debate. Treehugger editor Matthew McDermott has reposted and commented on sections of an op-ed piece from last week’s New York Times. In the Op-ed piece a doctoral student in the philosophy-neuroscience-psychology program at Washington University, Adam Shriver describes possible benefits of genetically modifying [...]
On “The Wilding” (0)
2/22/10 •
Last week we posted the first serialized work in our new section titled “The Wilding.” The Wilding is a term I am borrowing from Animal Architecture friend and mentor, Sanford Kwinter. In the last chapter of his most recent work “Far From Equilibrium” he, maybe indirectly but nonetheless poignantly, opens the door for what I [...]
David Bowen (0)
2/18/10 •
We’ve just discovered (Via vegitecture) what may be, to our eyes, the most exciting plant-art artist around. David Bowen’s growth rendering device is stunning. Its thoughtful complexity and provocative relationship between life and machine leaves us humbled. Thank you David for a fantastic installation. From his website:
This system provides light and food in the form of hydroponic [...]
Lacuno-Architecture (0)
2/17/10 •
As a guided missile, pointed in a wayward direction, Reiser and Umemoto continue, perhaps despite themselves to land on animism — bony, trabecular animism. And maybe it’s no surprise.
JDS Zoo in South Korea (2)
1/26/10 •
JDS Architects have unveiled the design of a sustainable zoo they’re proposing to be built on the South Korean island of Dochodo.
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