Not A Penguin Pool: Echoes of More-Than-Human Entanglements

Edited by Regina Bittner & Yujia Bian

In 1934, the London Zoo opened its new Penguin Pool – designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Company with Ove Arup. The elegant spirals of concrete became a symbol of modernist architecture, but also of its limits: a triumph of design, and a failure for its intended inhabitants.

Developed within the Bauhaus Lab 2023, this book revisits the Penguin Pool as a site of more-than-human entanglement – exploring architectures of cohabitation, colonial histories, ecological imaginaries, and gestures of solidarity across species.

Contributions by Daniella Camarena, Sarah Kantrowitz, Andrea Palášti, Nicolás Penna, Julieta Pestarino, Patricia Roig Canepa, and more.

148 pages, 10.4 x 14.4 cm, paperback, Spector Books (Leipzig).