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Creatures Are Stirring : A Guide to Architectural Companionship, Paperback / softback Book

Creatures Are Stirring : A Guide to Architectural Companionship Paperback / softback

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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 co-habitable future.

The book reconceptualises buildings as our friends by amplifying architecture’s creaturely qualities—formal embellishments, fictional enhancements, and organisational 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.

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