a+u 2025:04 Feature:More-Than-Human Architecture
Content
a+u’s April issue features Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN), an international architectural practice, based in New York and Madrid, and presents their investigation of the more-than-human dimension of the built environment through the concept of transspecies architecture. Instead of considering humans and buildings as enclosed entities that divide territory into discrete and separable units of space, transspecies architecture counters unilateral anthropocentric thinking by imagining architecture as a gathering of heterogenous entities, from the microbes in concrete to pulmonary alveoli, with permeable layers and varying scales in between. This issue of a+u brings together architects from across the globe – Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño (TAKK) from Spain and Mio Tsuneyama (Studio mnm) and Fuminori Nousaku (Fuminori Nousaku Architects) in Japan – to further this critical dialogue into the post-anthropocentric era. (a+u)
Essay:
Transspecies Architecture: Design as the Rearticulation of
More-Than-Human Life
Andrés Jaque
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
Transspecies Kitchen
The Earth Palace
The Transvector. The Center Cannot Hold
COSMO
Escaravox
PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society
Rolling House for the Rolling Society
TAKK
Solstice, garden pavilion
ARCA, portable garden
Cohabitation Dome, a soil care infrastructure
The Day After House
10K house
Fuminori Nousaku Architects and Studio mnm
Holes in the House
Fuminori Nousaku Architects
Akeno Raised Floor
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
House in Never Never Land
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Miguel Mesa del Castillo
Rambla Climate-House
Conversation:
Cosmopolitical Practices
Albena Yaneva in conversation with Andrés Jaque, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño, Fuminori Nousaku, and Mio Tsuneyama
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
Reggio School
Museum of the Ocean for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary
Art Collection
Hybrid Infrastructure: Run Run Run
RÒMOLA. A Marble-Made Tent in the Galaxy
TUPPER HOME
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Miguel de Guzmán, Enrique Krahe
Plasencia Care Home