BioIntelligent Beehive as Architectural Data. For most of the past decade, Annemarie Maes has been growing, hacking, digitizing, building, and thinking about beehives — particularly those in urban areas. Her constructed, prototyped, and grown hives are not immediately recognizable in classic forms of basket or wooden-box apiaries. Collaborating with a team of biologists, she is reconceptualizing what a beehive is and what it can be. Through the beehive she is addressing urban ecology, politics, and social systems. In this sense, what she builds or grows is recognizable as belonging to the realm of biological growths, found in nature and culture, and known in theory as animal, extended phenotypes.