*本书使用科幻、电影、艺术以及建筑学的案例来探讨生态学以及建筑学之间的关系。

蜘蛛在黑暗的角落里结网；黄蜂在屋顶下面筑巢：建筑环境中几乎没有任何地方不能被非人类居住，但我们人类对能够允许入屋的动物极为挑剔。这本书探讨了许多不同的动物的建筑，打开了我们如何去思考建筑和人类以外的生物。作者Paul Dobraszczyk 密切关注动物如何为自己创造空间，以及人类可能需要什么才能帮助那些使用我们结构的动物更适应它的环境。这本书探索了我们人类与动物密切纠缠的建筑环境，以及如何能更好共同生存。

好评：

This book upends our thinking about architecture. From Ninja Turtles through beaver dams and designer doghouses to the design of zoos, Dobraszczyk asks us to consider architecture from the perspectives of species other than ourselves, and, in doing so, to develop spaces more entangled with this thing we call nature. This could be a roadmap to escape our age of mass extinction and climate emergency.’ – Tom Dyckhoff, historian, writer and broadcaster

‘Our planet teems with an astonishing variety of forms of intelligent life. Yet the ambition of architecture to put the human house in order has contrived to shut them out, forcing them to find room in the cracks where buildings fall apart. Could an architecture of astonishment, open to flights of imagination freed from the rigour of reason, offer greater hope for future conviviality? Paul Dobraszczyk thinks so, and has amassed a wealth of examples, from every corner of the animal kingdom, to prove it.’ – Tim Ingold, author of Being Alive, The Perception of the Environment and Anthropology: Why It Matters

‘Dobraszczyk’s book is an invitation to imaginatively reconsider how we share the world with a multitude of species. In the face of biodiversity loss and species extinction, this is an indispensable survey that provokes us to expand architectural thinking beyond anthropocentrism.’ – Joyce Hwang, architect and associate professor, University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning

关于作者：

Paul Dobraszczyk is a writer and a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. He is the author of Future Cities (Reaktion, 2019) and co-editor of Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within (Reaktion, 2016).