golem’s ariel andré on reimagining architecture beyond the human

in this guest essay for designboom, the architect explores how shifting perspectives toward animals, overlooked bodies, and other forms of life can reshape the way we design and inhabit space.

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IMAGINING AN ARCHITECTURE BEYOND THE HUMAN

As a child, whenever I woke from one of those recurring nightmares that haunt the little ones, I would close my eyes again and imagine myself as a bee asleep with its wet nose nestled among the pistils of a flower ; a young bird huddled against its siblings in a nest of twigs lined with feathers from their father, tucked into the hollow of a tree trunk; a snake free of predators, slithering across a carpet of moss in a world it claimed as its own.…