{"product_id":"we-the-bacteria-notes-toward-biotic-architecture-9783037787830","title":"We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow architecture must learn to coexist with bacterial life, from the authors of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eAre We Human?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis provocative book is a manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers, maintenance crews and inhabitants of buildings. Spanish American architectural historian Beatriz Colomina and New Zealand-born architect Mark Wigley draw on the latest research to rethink the past and possible futures of the built environment, exploring the intimate entanglements of the microbes within bodies and buildings over the last 10,000 years, culminating in the antibiotic philosophy of contemporary architecture. Hostility to bacteria must give way to new forms of hospitality from a more symbiotic architecture that learns from bacteria, embracing them and reconnecting with soil, plants and other species. The main goal of the book is to rethink the very idea of shelter in terms of forms of inclusion rather than prophylactic forms of exclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeatriz Colomina\u003c\/b\u003e is the founding director of the Media and Modernity program at Princeton University. She has written extensively on questions of architecture, art, sexuality and media. Her books include \u003ci\u003eSexuality and Space\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003ePrivacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eDomesticity at War\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eClip\/Stamp\/Fold\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eRadical Pedagogies\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Wigley\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor and Dean Emeritus at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. As an architectural theorist and historian, he explores the intersection of architecture, art, philosophy, culture and technology. His publications include \u003ci\u003eBuckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eCutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation\u003c\/i\u003e (2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Beatriz Colomnia,Mark Wigley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lars Muller Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783037787830","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Beatriz Colomnia \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47792969711773,"sku":"9783037787830","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_754b347d-2e81-43bd-a228-2ef6596ed101.jpg?v=1774985843","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/we-the-bacteria-notes-toward-biotic-architecture-9783037787830","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}