Living Architecture: Illustrating the Future of Design

By: Althea Tierney ’25

Advising Faculty: Di Luo and Anna Vallye

Major: Architectural Studies and Art

Project/Mission Statement
Living Architecture: Illustrating the Future of Design analyzes how architecture has shaped the relationship between humans and nature through text and animation, and imagines how adopting bio-incorporative design principles and practices could facilitate a more symbiotic relationship in the future. It is a visual manifesto that pulls concepts and case studies from architectural studies, environmental philosophy, and anthropology/sociology to illustrate abstract concepts of architectural theory and philosophy, leaving the viewer with the hope that architecture has the power to shape our relationship with nature through this type of design.

Related Fields: Ammerman Center