2012 Awards: URBAN ANIMAL (10)

5/02/12 •

URBAN ANIMAL; The 2012 Animal Architecture Awards. Animal Architecture wants your ideas about how synanthropic design can reshape, expand and redefine the context of urban thought and space.

Hive City Winners Announced (0)

4/30/12 •

“Bee Tower” has been selected as the winning team for the very exciting Hive City Competition: “… the tower represent the cluster of material manufacturers around the site while housing the colony of bees.”

Hive City (1)

4/09/12 •

Recently our friend and compatriot in animal architecture endeavors, Joyce Hwang at SUNY Buffalo, announced the second stage of Hive City – a competition sponsored by Rick Smith and Rigidized Metals that asks students to design a new habitat for a bee colony currently in an abandoned office building in an emerging development, SiloCity. The site includes [...]

PURCH at RP Park (0)

4/04/12 •

…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 …

Scaffolding City (0)

3/29/12 •

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.

Bear 71 (0)

3/19/12 •

“It’s hard to say where the wired world ends and the wired world begins.” As part of the National Film Board of Canada, Bear 71 is a 20 minute interactive documentary that explores the the relationship between wildlife, human settlement, and surveillance.  Created by Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison from the point of view of [...]

On-Site Artist Projects at Russ Pitman Park (0)

3/06/12 •

Utilizing a variety of source materials- earth/organic, signage, and environmentally friendly technology- artists will make scientific investigations, explorations, and historical references through installations and time-based events…

Interview: Prosthetic Lizard Homes (0)

2/29/12 •

I have always been inspired by the resilient and often rebellious way that other species interact with and adapt to our human built environments and (in our general arrogance) our under-estimation of the potential of inter-species collaboration and co-habitation. This to me has always been a territory which warrants further exploration.

Interview: Carla Novak (0)

2/07/12 •

“Pigeon racing occupies an intriguing threshold between the domestic and the non-domestic. It seemed perfectly logical that a pigeon racing headquarters for a group of enthusiasts might materialize within an ordinary Victorian terraced house.”

Panel Discussion at ArCH (0)

2/02/12 •

Tonight at the ArCH (315 Capitol, Houston) @ 530pm.

Animal Architecture Panel with Ned Dodington, Jon LaRocca, Neeraj Bhatia, and Christopher Hight will discuss the Animal Architecture Award winning projects and their larger implications to architecture, design, and the human/animal divide.

Animal Architecture in the NY Times (0)

1/30/12 •

“Nobody is talking about the animals that exist around our cities,” said Ned Dodington, a Rice University architecture graduate who, with a fellow alumnus, Jon LaRocca, conceived the competition as the next progression in the sustainability trend.

Inside the World of Animal Architecture (0)

1/25/12 •

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.