L’architettura degli animali Animal Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Matteo Zambelli University of Florence, Italy Firenze University Press Florence 2021 https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-443-4

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Le costruzioni animali sono di solito viste come prodotti affascinanti del mondo biologico, ma umanamente privi di significato. Tuttavia, i nidi animali, i dispositivi di cattura e altre costruzioni sono così vari e ingegnosi nel loro uso di materiali, forme, principi e tecniche di costruzione, e così superbi nelle loro prestazioni funzionali, che superano le qualità delle costruzioni umane. Le costruzioni animali sono il prodotto di milioni di anni di evoluzione e adattamento, e questi processi comprendono anche una scelta estetica deliberata. Nell’attuale era di crisi ecologica possiamo sicuramente imparare modi sostenibili di costruire dagli architetti animali.

Animal constructions are usually seen as charming but humanly meaningless products of the biological world. However, animal nests, capture devices and other constructions are so varied and ingenious in their use of materials, forms, principles and techniques of building, and so superb in their functional performance, that they surpass the qualities of human constructions. Animal constructions are products of millions of years of evolution and adaptation, and these processes even include deliberate aesthetic choice. In the current era of ecological crises we can surely learn sustainable ways of building from animal architects.

 Animal construction greenways of construction ecological materials of construction functional performance animal aesthetic choice

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