Creatures Are Stirring

A Guide To Architectural Companionship

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‘Creatures Are Stirring’ is an optimistic manifesto that rescripts the anthropocentric narratives of Western architecture with new myths for a playfully compassionate and nonviolent future…

SKU: 90909
ISBN: 978-1-951541-61-3
Binding: Soft Bound
Pages: 180pp
Publication Date: Fall 2021
Size: 7″ x 10″ Portrait
World Rights: Available

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“The book re-conceptualizes buildings as our friends”

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ISBN

978-1-951541-61-3

Binding

Soft Bound

Pages

180pp

Publication date

Fall 2021

Size

7" x 10" Portrait

World rights

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Overview

‘Creatures Are Stirring’ is an optimistic manifesto that rescripts the anthropocentric narratives of Western architecture with new myths for a playfully compassionate and co-habitable future. The book reconceptualizes buildings as our friends by amplifying architecture’s creaturely qualities—formal embellishments, fictional enhancements, and organizational strategies that suggest animal-like agency. In an unsettled world, these qualities initiate more companionable relationships between humans and the built environment, and ultimately foster greater solidarity with other human and nonhuman lifeforms. Addressing a broad audience, ‘Creatures Are Stirring’ uses the apparent subjecthood of familiar objects like plush toys and sports mascots to guide readers towards a novel way of seeing, reading, and making creaturely architecture. The book combines the authors’ 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.

Authors

Joseph Altshuler is cofounder of Could Be Architecture, a Chicago-based design practice, an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the founding editor of SOILED, an architectural literary magazine.


Julia Sedlock is co-founder of Cosmo Design Factory, a Hudson Valley practice that combines residential client work with a commitment to local community development and activism. As a founding member of Philmont Land and Opportunity Trust (P.L.O.T.), Julia collaborates with neighbors and local government to improve housing equity and inclusivity in the village of Philmont, NY.

Additional Info

SKU: 90909
ISBN: 978-1-951541-61-3
Binding: Soft Bound
Pages: 180pp
Publication Date: Fall 2021
Size: 7″ x 10″ Portrait
World Rights: Available


Creatures Are Stirring

“The book re-conceptualizes buildings as our friends”

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USA - New York
Tel: +1(646) 322-2466
Asia - Singapore & China
Tel: +(65) 9068-1860
Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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