This birdhouse was designed for a charity auction on behalf of Fontenelle Nature Association of Nebraska, in March 2002. It was one of several birdhouses designed by other architects in my previous office, Alley Poyner Architecture P.C., a local architecture firm in Omaha Nebraska.
Architects have e long history of designing birdhouses, and they have served primarily as a mode of expressing their attitude towards nature. Frank Lloyd Wright (fig.1) designed several of them, and the one shown here was built on concrete, which engages it to the bigger framework of Wright?s architectural discourse. Another one by Oscar Niemeyer (fig.2), goes farther than that and uses the birdhouse as a tool to emphasize or explore the relationship of nature with the city. Even today architects continue to design them, as it was the case with The Birdhouse Project back in
2002 which attracted world renowned architects, industrial designers, and artists, to explore their ideas about the built environment and nature; among them are Tadao Ando, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Neil M. Denari, Renzo Piano, Norman Foster etc.
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