INTO THE WILD

摘要

"Ants act as individuals and as part of a super-organism," says Joyce Hwang, AIA. That's also how she sees architects' role in designing the built environment-distinct yet connected. In 2004, Hwang, who got her B.Arch. from Cornell University, founded Ants of the Prairie in Buffalo, N.Y., a quirky, innovative research and design shop with the aim of "confronting the pleasures and horrors of our contemporary ecologies." She has built her practice around finding ways to incorporate animal habitats into urban areas and projects, helping to stabilize landscapes for bees and other threatened species. Her Bat Tower design-she hopes the concept will soon dot the rooftops of Manhattan-and other experiments with bat housing helped her win a 2014 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York.