We the bacteria : notes toward biotic architecture / by Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley.

Main entry:

Colomina, Beatriz, author.

Title & Author:

We the bacteria : notes toward biotic architecture / by Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley.

Publication:

Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2025]
©2025

Description:

350 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 18 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- We are never alone -- Microbes in space -- Deep time -- The expanded gut -- Building-network-empire -- Plague architecture -- Sanitary reform -- The bacterial turn -- Cure by design -- The architecture of spit -- Architecture takes the cure -- Antibiotic architecture -- Dysbiosis -- Biotic architecture - Toward biotic architecture.

Summary:

"To think about shelter, we have to think about the microorganisms that invented interior space more than four billion years ago-and in so doing eventually made humans possible. We the bacteria draws on the evolving field of microbiology to highlight the intimate connection between the microbes that constitute us and the last ten thousand years of architecture. Treating bacteria as the real architects and inhabitants of the built environment, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley present an urgent manifesto for an alternative architectural paradigm that decenters the human."--back cover.
"This book conveys our thinking when curating 'We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture', at the 24th Milan Triennale. It gathers the ideas that instigated the project, grew during it, and go beyond it. 'We the Bacteria' is the companion of the 'Are We Human'? Notes on the Archaeology of Design book we made when curating the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennale."--Page 347.

ISBN:

9783037787830 paperback
303778783X

Subject:

Architecture and biology.
Bacteria.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture et biologie.
Architecture Philosophie.
Bactéries.
architectural theory.

Added entries:

Wigley, Mark, author.

Holdings:

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Copy: 1
Status: On Order

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