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“The effective practice of biophilic design depends on knowing and appreciating which features and processes of the natural world haveContinue Reading

“The story of human history is a story of building, perpetually building to accommodate actual and imagined needs…But in truth,Continue Reading

“Most modern architecture is composed of euclidean geometry although there is no perpendicular grid in the natural world…Today we areContinue Reading

“In the big picture, our turn away from nature is associated with less empathy and attraction to nature and, inContinue Reading

Contemporary society’s growing separation from nature, particularly in the design and development of the modern built environment, is partly aContinue Reading

“Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, andContinue Reading

“Let us be clear on this point: any occurrence of nature in the built environment cannot be called biophilic designContinue Reading

When I first heard of biophilic design about a decade ago, I was unimpressed. In fact, the idea made meContinue Reading

Hi, I am Ewa (ev-ah)! I am an interior architecture grad student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).Continue Reading