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The Architect and the Animal
The Architect and the Animal
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DATE PUBLISHED: December 09, 2025
PAGE COUNT: 160
CONDITION: New
CATEGORIES:
Art,Subjects & Themes,Plants & Animals,Architecture,Criticism
GENRE:
Design,
General Fiction,
Arts
COVER TYPE:
Hardcover
DIMENSIONS (in.):
10.25 x
9.81 x
0.77
AUDIENCE:
Adults
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Adults
SKU:9780262049696
LANGUAGE: eng-english
A spirited abecedarium-style book that shows how architects have engaged with animals as references and metaphors in modern and postmodern architecture.
Through an examination of 26 case studies (26 different animals explored by 26 different architects, from A to Z), The Architect and the Animal illustrates the various ways in which animals become reflective extensions of a predominantly humanistic-anthropocentric science and art, mirroring that of architecture itself. Why are animals represented and in what context? In which ways do they express critical stances against modernity? How do they relate to local myths and indigenous identities? How do they defend global cultural history and tradition? Can animals, through their silent presence, become authors of criticism and resistance both in aesthetic and cultural terms?
In modern architectural discourse, the animal was typically approached not through its various cultural or symbolic identities but as a body examined and analyzed under a formalistic scientific lens. In this edited volume, Kostas Tsiambaos goes beyond the formalistic use of animals to explore a less operative—and more meaningful—understanding of animal references and representations in twentieth century architecture. Both playful and serious, there is nothing quite like this book.
Through an examination of 26 case studies (26 different animals explored by 26 different architects, from A to Z), The Architect and the Animal illustrates the various ways in which animals become reflective extensions of a predominantly humanistic-anthropocentric science and art, mirroring that of architecture itself. Why are animals represented and in what context? In which ways do they express critical stances against modernity? How do they relate to local myths and indigenous identities? How do they defend global cultural history and tradition? Can animals, through their silent presence, become authors of criticism and resistance both in aesthetic and cultural terms?
In modern architectural discourse, the animal was typically approached not through its various cultural or symbolic identities but as a body examined and analyzed under a formalistic scientific lens. In this edited volume, Kostas Tsiambaos goes beyond the formalistic use of animals to explore a less operative—and more meaningful—understanding of animal references and representations in twentieth century architecture. Both playful and serious, there is nothing quite like this book.
