Pet-tecture: Design for Pets

by Tom Wainwright

A fun, engaging, inspirational survey of more than 200 of the very best contemporary designs for pets in the same format as Mobitecture and Nanotecture.

Genres: Design, Architecture

288 pages, Hardcover

Published September 28, 2018

About the author

Tom Wainwright is the Britain Editor of The Economist. He joined the Britain section in 2007 to cover a beat including crime and justice, migration and social affairs. In 2010 he became the newspaper’s Mexico City bureau chief, responsible for coverage of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. There he wrote a special report on Mexico (“From darkness, dawn”, 2012). In 2013 he returned to London, to take up the role of Homepage Editor, and latterly International Correspondent before his current appointment in 2015.

Before joining The Economist Mr Wainwright was a trainee on the Daily Express, and a contributor to newspapers including the Times, Guardian and Daily Telegraph. He read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University, graduating in 2004.

Reviews

[Ivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Lots of people hear the voice of their pets, but are they truly listening?" A noble intention, but is the execution on par? Decidedly not. This phrase applies to most of design ideas in this book by the vice of being too small, too exposed or not exposed enough, too light or too heavy, potentially too hot or too cold, as well as unstable - that is being easily tipped by the animal entering or exiting those or simply loading them to their supposed "design specifications". Dead fish in the water, folks, the DDT of the pretentiousness and bandwagon jumpung had unfortunately been sprayed in this emergent wellspring...

[Jora · Rating 3 out of 5]

I waited a month to read this book, because someone has it overdue at the library. After waiting I finished the book in one night and one morning! It was interesting, and if I was a super-mega- rich pet owner, I would buy a pet home, but I'm not. I was disappointed to at the pet homes that were so similar to ones that I had thought this book was avoiding: regular houses, and basically just boxy, and boring. Also, too many cat homes for my taste. Maybe it's just me, but I only liked about 6 designs in the whole book. All in all, worth reading.

[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Haiku review #8

Fun to flip through this,
But I won't ever be rich
Enough to buy some.

[Louise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un ouvrage de design sur les animaux très original ! Il donne envie de se fournir de multiples meubles pour plaire à nos petits chats et chiens. J'ai passé un agréable moment aussi bien visuellement que pour les informations avec cet ouvrage !

[Randi · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun, bizarre, quick read.

[MKF · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of these are really ugly or just really weird looking. My only thing was that many objects listed just for dogs or just for cats could be used for the species as well.