BBC Culture — “How Nature Inspires the Buildings of Jeanne Gang”
October 12, 2015
BBC Culture
Jeanne spoke with the BBC’s Jonathan Glancey about birds’ nests, the tools that made Aqua Tower possible, reviving an urban habitat at the Lincoln Park Zoo Nature Boardwalk, and the importance of breaking things.
“On the windowsill in Jeanne Gang’s studio, several birds’-nests are lined up. The architect, whose practice is based in Chicago, takes inspiration from their beauty and economy.
‘Birds’-nests are so resourceful,’ she tells Jonathan Glancey. ‘When nature works it uses the least amount of material and uses it in the most advantageous way. If we could learn from that, cities could become more interconnected like an ecological cycle, where the waste from one thing becomes the material for the next.’”
