The Bartlett School of Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College of London, London, UK
Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2018 Aug 19;373(1753). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0253.
The search for general common principles that unify disciplines is a longstanding challenge for interdisciplinary research. Architecture has always been an interdisciplinary pursuit, combining engineering, art and culture. The rise of biomimetic architecture adds to the interdisciplinary span. We discuss the similarities and differences among human and animal societies in how architecture influences their collective behaviour. We argue that the emergence of a fully biomimetic architecture involves breaking down what we call 'pernicious dualities' that have permeated our discourse for decades, artificial divisions between species, between organism and environment, between genotype and phenotype, and in the case of architecture, the supposed duality between the built environment and its builders. We suggest that niche construction theory may serve as a starting point for unifying our thinking across disciplines, taxa and spatial scales.This article is part of the theme issue 'Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour'.
寻找统一各学科的普遍共同原则是跨学科研究的长期挑战。建筑一直是一门跨学科的追求，融合了工程、艺术和文化。仿生建筑的兴起增加了跨学科的跨度。我们讨论了建筑如何影响其集体行为，以及人类和动物社会之间的异同。我们认为，完全仿生建筑的出现涉及打破我们几十年来的话语中一直存在的“有害二元论”，即在物种之间、生物与环境之间、基因型与表型之间以及在建筑领域中，在建筑环境与其建造者之间存在的人为划分。我们认为，生态位构建理论可以作为统一我们跨学科、分类群和空间尺度思考的起点。本文是主题为“揭示建筑对集体行为影响的跨学科方法”的一部分。
