For long, spatial design has been seen as an action that could be
performed by people and for people only. And today, even though some of
the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this
concept, qualitative researches still struggle to emerge.
This is why this book collects, reconstructs, and discusses archetypal
models of posthuman architecture, from the cabin of Henry David Thoreau
to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. To show how architectural, landscape,
and industrial designers, be they professional practitioner or not,
redefined their tools in order to meet the functional and symbolic needs
of new and different kinds of subjects. All this in ten monographic
architectural tales, thought to trace the evolution of an extended idea
of coexistence between humans and other species and technologies.