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Manufacturers: Dpot, Etel Design , Olho Interni, Silvestre Vidros , Taciela Gomes, +1Trousseau-1https://www.archdaily.com/1182346/coral-barn-alvorada-house-nildo-jose-arquitetosNana Dokua### Helix Residence / SAOTAhttps://www.archdaily.com/1041737/helix-residence-saotaHadir Al Koshta### Tiger Track Ecolodge / Building BureauHospitality Architecture, Cabins & Lodgeshttps://www.archdaily.com/1182211/tiger-track-ecolodge-building-bureauSusanna Moreira### Val d'Oust Cultural Center / Atelier 56SCultural Architecture, Public Architecture, Cultural Centerhttps://www.archdaily.com/1182109/val-doust-cultural-center-atelier-56sCristina Popescu### Has Architecture Ever Been Entirely Human? Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley on the Microbial Nature of ArchitectureWater supply system of Paris, engraving from La Nature, France, 1886. Image © Public Domain**Architecture has long been understood as a discipline created by humans and for humans. But in *We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture*, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley challenge that assumption, arguing that "*microbes invented architecture.*" From this premise unfolds an alternative history of architecture that shifts the focus away from human exceptionalism and toward the microorganisms that have shaped life, environments, and the built world for billions of years.The book explores the idea that architecture cannot be understood separately from the microbial worlds that shape it, suggesting that "*architecture inhabits humans just as much as humans inhabit architecture*." Rather than inert objects, buildings emerge as dynamic ecosystems that Colomina and Wigley go as far as describing as "*an expanded gut shared with others*," where microbes, materials, people, and countless other forms of life continuously coexist, exchange, and evolve.