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Algaetecture and Nonsterile
Author(s) -
Pike Steve
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.774
Subject(s) - pike , space (punctuation) , architecture , scale (ratio) , environmental ethics , computer science , history , archaeology , geography , cartography , philosophy , fishery , biology , fish <actinopterygii> , operating system
Steve Pike outlines a series of controlled experiments he embarked upon with microbiologist Conrad Mullineaux, which culminated in a final installation highlighting the potential of a microbiological‐responsive architecture at a human scale. With these experiments, Pike challenges the way in which we commonly understand ‘air’ as a sterile and empty space, exploring the aesthetic implications of it as a mass of densely colonised matter that reflects users' activities via their bacteriological traces. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.