Beavers and the Bees

I think this article is very interesting due to the author discussing our fascination with the architecture that animals have created. Learning that we observed animals building habits to make our own building is very interesting. In this article I stumbled upon a quote that is very much true which states that, we as humans have lost touch with our intuition due to being overly civilized. I think that that statement is very true in the sense that we don’t go with our gut feelings about certain things as often as we should. In our generation we either have someone else to think for us or some mathematical and logical way of solving things, but with that we are losing our own instinct as to how to go about doing things as humans. It is interesting to me the outlook of Vitruvius’ opinion that we have surpassed the architecture of animals in comparison to Rudofsky’s opinion that we haven’t. As I read more about Rudofsky’s opinion I agree with him in the idea that we as humans have not surpassed animals and their architecture due to not having the same instinct as animals and not being able to adjust to the circumstances that surround it.

I also have to agree with Jorrie on her ideas that we don’t build our architecture from instincts but from intelligence. Animals build things and change or alter them to fit the needs of their habitat, in a way we do too but with more advanced and intelligent ways. We build things to be useful and purposeful in multiple ways that best fit our environment. The idea that animals instinctually build such structures is not a reason for philosophers to say that animals are surpassing the human architecture but just proves that we use our intelligence to make an efficient and safe structure for mankind.