We the Bacteria: Notes Towards Biotic Architecture - Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley Travel Provenance in architecture illuminates the

Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally composite objects from their complex origins to their uncertain destinations

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Design by Olof Kolte

1987 267 pages

We the Bacteria: Notes Towards Biotic Architecture - Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley Travel Provenance in architecture illuminates theThe sequel to the authors Are We Human?, this provocative book is an urgent manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers, maintenance crews and inhabitants of buildings. Colomina and Wigley draw on the latest research into microbes to rethink the past and possible futures of the built environment. The book explores the intimate entanglements of the microbes within bodies and