Not a penguin pool : echoes of more-than-human entanglements / edited by Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.

First edition.

Leipzig : Spector Books, 2025.

167 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 15 cm.

Bauhaus Taschenbuch ; 28

In the summer of 1934, the London Zoo opened its new Penguin Pool. Designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Company, in collaboration with Ove Arup, the elegant, interlocking concrete spiral ramps on which the penguins ?showcase their social talents? was met with universal acclaim. In the years since, the structure has been celebrated for its iconic architecture - and has justly been criticized for its inadequacy when it comes to housing penguins. The collective research conducted in the framework of the Bauhaus Lab in 2023 critically reflects on the far-reaching constellations, geographical imaginaries, design discourses and material entanglements of this multi-species environment. Based on archival research and excursions, the publication unfolds multiple epistemologies of the Penguin Pool through a spectrum of theoretical, historical and cultural phenomena straddling the realms of architecture, historiography and more-than-human entanglements, while at the same time proposing contemporary gestures of co-habitation.00Exhibition: Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany (21.07.2023 - 11.02.2024).

9783959058117 paperback
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Lubetkin, Berthold, 1901-1990 Exhibitions.
Tecton (Firm) Exhibitions.
London Zoo (London, England) Buildings Exhibitions.
Zoos England London Exhibitions.
Zoo exhibits England London Exhibitions.
Jardins zoologiques Angleterre Londres Expositions.
Jardins zoologiques Présentations d'animaux Angleterre Londres Expositions.
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.

Lubetkin, Berthold, 1901-1990.
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, editor.
Bauhaus, host institution.
Bauhaus Taschenbuch ; 28.

Location: Library main y 325529
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