Comments on: About http://www.animalarchitecture.org Explorations in Cospecies Coshaping Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Bianca http://www.animalarchitecture.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-2137 Bianca Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:40:06 +0000 http://www.animalarchitecture.org/?page_id=1325#comment-2137 Dear Ned an Jonathon! Love your website and investigation with great example-projects! In fact, I would like to write my thesis about it! Do you have some recommendations literature for me, which I can read and use for my research?! Maybe great (interior) architects who follow a lot of biological design? (sorry my Englisch isn't that great!) Thank you very much! Bianca Dear Ned an Jonathon!

Love your website and investigation with great example-projects! In fact, I would like to write my thesis about it! Do you have some recommendations literature for me, which I can read and use for my research?! Maybe great (interior) architects who follow a lot of biological design? (sorry my Englisch isn’t that great!)

Thank you very much!

Bianca

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]]> By: Ned Dodington http://www.animalarchitecture.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Ned Dodington Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:59:54 +0000 http://www.animalarchitecture.org/?page_id=1325#comment-277 Ben, Thanks for the comment. The project looks very interesting and we will be sure to check it out more thoroughly. As for contact we do prefer comments to posts (just like you did) but emails can be sent to animalarchitecture at gmail.com (we spell out the "@" here to limit spam. Please reinsert the ampersand in the actual email.) Ben,

Thanks for the comment. The project looks very interesting and we will be sure to check it out more thoroughly. As for contact we do prefer comments to posts (just like you did) but emails can be sent to animalarchitecture at gmail.com (we spell out the “@” here to limit spam. Please reinsert the ampersand in the actual email.)

]]> By: Ben Emanuelson http://www.animalarchitecture.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Ben Emanuelson Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:37:01 +0000 http://www.animalarchitecture.org/?page_id=1325#comment-275 Hi, I was not able to find a contact email. Our local AIA chapter held an Humane society shelter design competition, and our entry was this project, (at link) which was designed for feline species. It is constructed of Steel and Carbon Composites. Please check it out. http://www.carbonfiberarchitecture.com/2008/08/first-tangible-product-inhabitant-proof.html Hi, I was not able to find a contact email. Our local AIA chapter held an Humane society shelter design competition, and our entry was this project, (at link) which was designed for feline species. It is constructed of Steel and Carbon Composites. Please check it out.

http://www.carbonfiberarchitecture.com/2008/08/first-tangible-product-inhabitant-proof.html

]]> By: Ned Dodington http://www.animalarchitecture.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Ned Dodington Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:37:03 +0000 http://www.animalarchitecture.org/?page_id=1325#comment-235 Mark, Thank you for your time and comment. Above all, I believe that constructive debate holds the key to progress. I suppose that on the topic of the potential for technology to aid or hinder human development -- only time will tell, but that I for one am skeptical of our current as you say "communal fascination." I would rather see us get smarter about using the tools we have, than revel in the glow of technology per-se. As for your comment about happiness without decay, I'm a bit confused about whether you see this as a good or bad thing, or something that is a simple inevitability. For me, this sounds like a problem, any life with out decay sounds like some kind of purgatory (mythology rarely depicts immortality in a kind light), or not life at all. As to your last point of "knowing" the soil I couldn't agree more and I hope that you continue to keep us in mind and visit us for future postings and discussion. Thanks. Mark,

Thank you for your time and comment. Above all, I believe that constructive debate holds the key to progress. I suppose that on the topic of the potential for technology to aid or hinder human development — only time will tell, but that I for one am skeptical of our current as you say “communal fascination.” I would rather see us get smarter about using the tools we have, than revel in the glow of technology per-se. As for your comment about happiness without decay, I’m a bit confused about whether you see this as a good or bad thing, or something that is a simple inevitability. For me, this sounds like a problem, any life with out decay sounds like some kind of purgatory (mythology rarely depicts immortality in a kind light), or not life at all. As to your last point of “knowing” the soil I couldn’t agree more and I hope that you continue to keep us in mind and visit us for future postings and discussion.

Thanks.

]]> By: Mark LaPierre http://www.animalarchitecture.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Mark LaPierre Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:16:48 +0000 http://www.animalarchitecture.org/?page_id=1325#comment-234 Ned, I read your comment re Betsky's observations on Green Architecture. Provocative and curious. So, I took your invitation and visited AnimalArchitecture.org. Very nice site and great topics. I have many reactions to the premise and the projects presented - sympathetic, but opposing. I support your quest to explore, perhaps obliterate, the distinction between Human and Animal. But, I think, from a largely differing perspective. I don't believe any such seperation exists. In fact, I fear that our current cultural communal fascination with technology is promoting this thesis that we are desperately growing ever more seperated from the world beyond our own skin; and that modern technology (personal computers?), will bring us to a higher plane of consciousness, a comfortable, accommodating fit, a place of happiness without decay. The problems we face, the ones we've created, and the solutions we explore are not new and thus don't require new technologies to comprehend or solve. The numbers game is certainly our essential modern challenge, and to that computers present new tools. I'll offer that a modern comprehension of our being and our space can be best achieved by taking a hold of the essentials of our existence. Start with "knowing" the soil, and let's work from there. I noted your interest in encouraging constructive debate (the logic of high rise farming). I look forward to future postings. Mark Ned,
I read your comment re Betsky’s observations on Green Architecture. Provocative and curious. So, I took your invitation and visited AnimalArchitecture.org. Very nice site and great topics. I have many reactions to the premise and the projects presented – sympathetic, but opposing. I support your quest to explore, perhaps obliterate, the distinction between Human and Animal. But, I think, from a largely differing perspective. I don’t believe any such seperation exists. In fact, I fear that our current cultural communal fascination with technology is promoting this thesis that we are desperately growing ever more seperated from the world beyond our own skin; and that modern technology (personal computers?), will bring us to a higher plane of consciousness, a comfortable, accommodating fit, a place of happiness without decay. The problems we face, the ones we’ve created, and the solutions we explore are not new and thus don’t require new technologies to comprehend or solve. The numbers game is certainly our essential modern challenge, and to that computers present new tools. I’ll offer that a modern comprehension of our being and our space can be best achieved by taking a hold of the essentials of our existence. Start with “knowing” the soil, and let’s work from there. I noted your interest in encouraging constructive debate (the logic of high rise farming). I look forward to future postings.
Mark

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