Biophilic Design Quotes

Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.

If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.

Fundamentally, I am all about finding interesting and authentic ways to incorporate nature into most of my designs.

A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications for human health and child development. They say the quality of exposure to nature affects our health at an almost cellular level.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.