Creatures Are Stirring: A Guide to Architectural Companionship

Creatures Are Stirring is a manifesto that rewrites Western architecture's anthropocentric narratives with new myths for a playfully compassionate and co-habitable future. It reconceptualizes buildings as our friends by amplifying their creaturely qualities, initiating more companionable relationships between humans and the built environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 180 pages
Publication date: 23 March 2022
Publisher: Oro Editions

Creatures Are Stirring is an inspiring manifesto that rewrites the anthropocentric narratives of Western architecture with fresh myths for a delightfully compassionate and co-habitable future. The book redefines buildings as our companions by highlighting their animal-like qualities, such as formal embellishments, fictional enhancements, and organizational strategies that suggest animal-like agency. In an uncertain world, these qualities initiate more friendly relationships between humans and the built environment, ultimately fostering greater solidarity with other human and nonhuman lifeforms.

Addressing a wide audience, Creatures Are Stirring employs the apparent subjecthood of familiar objects like plush toys and sports mascots to guide readers towards a novel way of seeing, reading, and creating creaturely architecture. The book combines the author's essays and memoirs (narrated from buildings' points of view) with contributions from contemporary architects whose work collectively defines an architectural territory that is at once grounded in disciplinary rigor and urgent realities, and liberated to elicit fantastical futures.

Weight: 709g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781951541613