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Animals in Modern and Postmodern Architecture book cover

1st Edition

Animals in Modern and Postmodern Architecture

Edited By Kostas Tsiambaos Copyright 2027
206 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The book focuses on specific case studies from modern and postmodern architecture where animals stand out as agents that contribute to a broader political, cultural, and environmental critique. The various entangled, convoluted animal references and representations are not only seen as products of the architects’ sublimation but also as critical reflections of the architects’ active civic... Read more

List of figures

List of contributors

Introduction

Kostas Tsiambaos

Cats or Dogs: an architectural preference

M. Christine Boyer

A Brazilian Fable: on Lina Bo Bardi’s zoological lives

Martín Cobas

Time, Place and Man. The role of animals in Hassan Fathy’s drawings

Viola Bertini

Political animals in the search for an Afrikaner identity in architecture. Gerard Moerdijk’s symbolic menagerie

Alta Steenkamp

Buildings as animals, or, eschatological perspectives of modern Greek architecture

Kostas Tsiambaos

Animalistic allegories in the work of Yona Friedman

Manuel Orazi

John Hejduk, animals, and the Anthropological Machine

Martin Søberg

Towards a zoopolitical and technodiverse renegotiation of shared habitats: the dovecotes of the Mediterranean Arc as other-than-modern technical references

Paula V. Álvarez and Francisco García-Triviño

Index

Biography

Kostas Tsiambaos is an architect, Associate Professor in History & Theory of Architecture at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University in Athens (NTUA). His books include The Architect and the Animal (MIT Press, 2025) and From Doxiadis' Theory to Pikionis' Work: Reflections of Antiquity in Modern Architecture (Routledge, 2018).

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