Posthuman Architectures

The Posthuman is the new paradigm of architecture. Encompassing related topics such as the post-Anthropocene, more-than-human, non-human, trans-human, anti-human and meta-human, this AD presents a synthesis of the architectural Posthuman. Proliferating and diversifying, the Posthuman is now as planetary as it is everyday, and as disruptive, contested and contradictory as it is sublime. From the detail to the interplanetary, and from real and fictional designs and spaces to more proleptic universe-building futures, the issue describes and speculates on these spectacular and shocking new species. It envisions the Posthuman through the array of emerging technologies, and features original contributions from academics, professionals, design studios and related disciplines and domains. These new spaces include the full electromagnetic spectrum and present new entanglements of Posthuman theories and technologies. Contributors: Mario Carpo; Paul Dobraszczyk; Alberto Fernandez; Ariane Harrison; Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger and Olga Bannova; Steven Hutt; Xavier de Kestelier, Levent Ozruh and Jonathan Irwan; Sylvia Lavin; Jacopo Leveratto; Tyson Hosmer, Roberto Bottazzi and Mollie Claypool; Colbey Reid and Dennis Weiss; Andrew Witt; and Brent Sherwood. Featured designers and architects: Blue Origin, Christian Rex van Minnen, Harrison Atelier, and Hassell.

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Posthuman in Architectures and Other Spaces Chapter 2 More-Than-Post: A Five-Step Recipe for Decentring Design Chapter 3 A Posthuman Architectural Artificial Intelligence Speculum?: Text and Images in FutureSpaces Chapter 4 Disruptive Ecologies: Design with Nonhuman Intelligences Chapter 5 Feral Surfaces: Building Envelopes as Intelligent Multi-species Habitats Chapter 6 On the Posthuman Charm of Slime and Mould Chapter 7 Alternative Domiciles for the Domestic Posthuman Chapter 8 Aliens Among Us: The Posthuman Wunderkammer Chapter 9 Alternate Architectural Subjects: An Apple Tree That Lived on Long Island Chapter 10 Beyond Domesticities: Posthuman Architectures for Animals We Farm Chapter 11 Flying Feral: Posthuman Architectures, Enclosures and Open-Loop Interface Designs Chapter 12 Learning, Teaching,Coexisting, Thriving: The Evolution of Space Architecture in the Posthuman Era Chapter 13 Scaling Lunar Habitats from Research Outpoststo Thriving Villages Chapter 14 Posthuman Space Architecture: Machine Worlds to Seed Space Chapter 15 21st-Century Posthuman Spaceship and Spacecraft Architectures: Machine Worlds to Seed Space Chapter 16 The Ultimate Sin: The Super-Surrealist Body Contributors About Architectural Design