Has Architecture Ever Been Entirely Human? Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley on the Microbial Nature of Architecture

Architecture has long been understood as a discipline created by humans and for humans. But in We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture , Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley challenge that assumption, arguing that " microbes invented architecture. " From this premise unfolds an alternative history of architecture that shifts the focus away from human exceptionalism and toward the microorgani