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Architecture and Planning ETDs
Publication Date
5-9-1973
Abstract
This is a research exercise to produce and bring to light the most important user requirements for those major mammals upon whom we have imposed our reign. It may be a document to provide a means of change to remedy an ailing conscience of moral obligations to those other members of our earth family whom we have put in the zoos of the world. The author's purpose is not to belittle work completed or in progress at the many zoos but to provide a concise reference document for future architectural endeavors and a gauge for valid criticism. The need for such a work is justified in the author's mind by the growth in zoos and growth within zoos, and the millions of visitors each year who retreat to the zoological parks and gardens to view what they systematically remove from the outside. Furthermore, this author observed too many caged animals with broken spirits to content himself with a lesser effort. The major mammals involved in these pages consist of those animals with which the architect most likely would become involved: Anthropoid apes, bears, cats, the elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus, kangaroo and wallaby, rhinoceros, seal, sea lion and zebra. Carl Hagenbeck and Robert Garner at the turn of the century presented impressively modern ideas for housing animals. The concept of the zoological parks derives its birth from these early pioneers of humanity in animal housing. This text consolidates and produces information which will enable the architect/designer to produce animal housing and enclosures in the spirit of their early efforts.
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Architecture
Level of Degree
Masters
Department Name
School of Architecture and Planning
First Committee Member (Chair)
Don Paul Schlegel
Second Committee Member
Illegible
Third Committee Member
Illegible
Fourth Committee Member
Michel Louis Roger Pillet
Recommended Citation
Towery, Kenneth Raymond. "An Architectural Reference for Zoological Parks." (1973). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/arch_etds/238