a+u 655 More-Than-Human Architecture

Description

This issue features Spanish architect, writer, and curator Andrés Jaque and his international practice, the Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLLIN), based in New York and Madrid. It presents the office’s investigation of the more-than-human dimension of the built environment through the concept of transspecies architecture, which counters unilateral anthropocentric thinking by imagining architecture as a gathering of heterogenous entities, with permeable layers and varying scales. The issue furthers this critical dialogue by bringing together architects from around the globe, including TAKK from Spain and Studio mnm and Fuminori Nousaku from Japan.
CONTENTS

• Essay: Transspecies Architecture: Design as the Rearticulation of More-Than-Human Life , Andrés Jaque
• Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
  Transspecies Kitchen
  The Earth Palace
  The Transvector. The Center Cannot Hold
  COSMO
  Escaravox
  PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society
  Rolling House for the Rolling Society
• TAKK
  Solstice, garden pavilion
  ARCA, portable garden
  Cohabitation Dome, a soil care infrastructure
  The Day After House
  10K house
• Fuminori Nousaku Architects and Studio mnm, Holes in the House
• Fuminori Nousaku Architects, Akeno Raised Floor
• Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, House in Never Never Land
• Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Miguel Mesa del Castillo, Rambla Climate-House
• Conversation: Cosmopolitical Practices / Albena Yaneva in conversation with Andrés Jaque, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño, Fuminori Nousaku, and Mio Tsuneyama
• Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
  Reggio School
  Museum of the Ocean for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary
  Art Collection
  Hybrid Infrastructure: Run Run Run
  RÒMOLA. A Marble-Made Tent in the Galaxy
  TUPPER HOME
• Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Miguel de Guzmán, Enrique Krahe, Plasencia Care Home