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The Architect and the Animal

• MIT Press • ISBN Not provided

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The Architect and the Animal

• MIT Press • ISBN-13 9780262049696

ISBN-10 1771548797 • 2025

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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 sc

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Publisher: MIT Press
2025
Pages: 160

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Contributor: the animal was typicMovement: Postmodernism

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Category: Animal StudiesCategory: Architectural TheoryCategory: Cultural HistoryCategory: Design CriticismCategory: Modern ArchitectureCategory: Postmodern ArchitectureCategory: Criticism

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