Maura Doyle

A Guide to Beaver Architecture
Sticks and Mud Reconsidered


46 pages, soft cover, perfect bound, fully illustrated in black and white $20
Edition of 100 (80 + 20)
7 x 5 inches
April 2009

Special edition of 20, signed and numbered, includes DVD by the artist please enquire.


Maura Doyle, A Guide to Beaver Architecture (2009)


Produced in conjunction with the exhibition New Age Beaver
at Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto)
April 24 - May 23, 2009


Maura Doyle, A Guide to Beaver Architecture (2009)


A Guide to Beaver Architecture: Sticks and Mud Reconsidered documents the history of beaver architecture as recorded by the human animal and highlights cross-species exchange as a possible influence on the beaver's work. It includes documentation of unconventional beaver works, such as the beaver dam in North Dakota made entirely with coal and mud; the chewed stick and a pink T-shirt dam barricade at a Haliburton (Ontario) beaver sanctuary; and the "fallen log dam", which was constructed around a fallen log in Michigan.


Maura Doyle, A Guide to Beaver Architecture (2009)

Still image from location N 45∞ 67' W 75∞ 34' (Gatineau, Quebec)


N 45∞ 67' W 75∞ 34'

Maura Doyle (2007) DVD 00:09:22
Documentary portrait of a beaver pond in Quebec
New Age Beaver Special Edition 2009