Research Catalog

Title

Creatures are stirring : a guide to architectural companionship / Joseph Altshuler, Julia Sedlock.

Author

Altshuler, Joseph

Publication

• [Novato, CA] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, [2021]
• ©2021

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Sedlock, Julia

Description

183 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

Creatures Are Stirring is an optimistic manifesto that rescripts the anthropocentric narratives of Western architecture with new myths for a playfully compassionate and nonviolent future. The book re-conceptualises buildings as our friends by amplifying architecture's creaturely qualities-formal embellishments, fictional enhancements, and organisational strategies that suggest animal-like agency. In a burning world, such qualities may initiate more companionable relationships between humans and the built environment, and ultimately foster greater solidarity with other human and nonhuman lifeforms. Addressing a broad audience, 'Creatures Are Stirring' uses the apparent subjecthood of familiar objects like plush toys and sports mascots to guide readers toward a novel way of seeing, reading, and making creaturely architecture. The book combines the authors' expository text and illustrated mythical interludes with contributions from contemporary architects whose work collectively defines an architectural territory that is at once grounded in disciplinary rigor and urgent realities, and liberated to elicit fantastical futures.

Alternative Title

Guide to architectural companionship

Subject

• Architecture
• Animals in art
• Architecture > Philosophy
• Architectural criticism
• Architecture > Philosophie
• Critique d'architecture
• architecture (discipline)
• architectural criticism

Contents

Storytelling & represention -- Representation & Citizenship -- Citizenship & symbiosis.

ISBN

• 9781951541613
• 1951541618

LCCN

99990634982

OCLC

• on1277139753
• 1277139753

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries