The Architect and the Animal by Kostas Tsiambaos

A spirited abecedarium-style book that shows how architects have engaged with animals as references and metaphors in modern and postmodern architecture.

In The Architect and the Animal, 26 different architects look at how 26 different animals, from A to Z, have found their way into modern architectural discourse. The animal was typically approached in this discourse not through its various cultural or symbolic identities but as a body examined under a formalistic scientific lens. In this volume, the authors explore a less operative—and more meaningful—understanding of animal references and representations in twentieth-century architecture. Both playful and serious, there is nothing quite like this book.