New green building: The Calwer Passage is centrally located at the geographical center of the state capital Stuttgart.

Site sourced whole trees for your structural systems, custom designed configurations, and decorative components.

Visual Delight in Architecture book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Visual Delight in Architecture examines the many ways that...

The 2B studio is sharing a speaker event with the larger community. Lisa Heschong, author of the seminal Thermal Delight in Architecture, will be sharing her new book with us Visual Delight in Architecture. It will be discussed broadly through the trajectory of her career, and will focus on topics especially central to the 2B term including microclimates, environment, and the concept of nature.

May 5, 2021 Velcro pants and legs. Booster rockets and spacecraft. Humans and nature. What do these three pairs have in common? They’re all things that get detached from one another. That’s right, we modern humans seem hellbent on detaching ourselves from nature, despite the obvious fact that we evolved to spend our days and […]

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Thermal Delight in Architecture book. Read 18 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural asso...

From the 2020 Nature of Place Symposium, for more resources visit: Is there such a thing as a city that is designed to maximize moments of awe? In his presentation “Designing a City of Awe: Cultivating Wonder, Connection and Empathy in the Biophilic City,” Teresa Heinz Professor Timothy Beatley, Ph.D., argued for the reassessment of our built environments by examining the many experiences of awe that are brought on by nature and identifying the possibilities this raises for biophilic design. Dr. Beatley defines awe as a constellation of terms: wonder, discovery, curiosity, wildness, magic, ...

Mariana Figueiro, Light and Health Program Director at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) and Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, reveals surprising facts about the effects of light – its presence, its absence, and its patterns – on human health.

From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind...

Health and environmental compatibility are key topics in contemporary society. The book shows how the built environment can be aesthetica...

A review of research presenting the financial potential for a broad deployment of biophilic design in offices, communities, schools, retail and hospitals.

A review of research presenting the financial potential for a broad deployment of biophilic design in offices, communities, schools, retail and hospitals.

The Biophilic Map is a databank for case studies which have implemented Biophilic Design at the core of their design process.

Creating Biophilic Buildings has 3 ratings and 0 reviews: Published November 1st 2017 by Ecotone Publishing, 205 pages, Paperback

Biophilic Design is the practice of connecting people and nature within our built environments and communities.

Executive Producer: Stephen Kellert Producer/Director: Bill Finnegan Production Company: Tamarack Media Film Length: 60 minutes More information at www.biophilicdesign.net. Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and suburbs in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature. The recent trend in green architecture has decreased the environmental impact of the built environment, but it has accomplished little in the way of reconnecti...

LISA HESCHONG, HESCHONG MAHONE GROUP Daylighting Frontiers LISA HESCHONG is Vice President and Chief Building Scientist for TRC Energy Services. Located in Sacramento California, Heschong spent 30 years as a registered architect, and has devoted her career to a balance between research, writing, and building design. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and as Chair of the IES Daylight Metrics Committee. She is especially well known for her research showing a link between daylight and student performance, and she was recently awarded the Jam...

Learn how your biological clock or circadian rhythm tunes physiology, metabolism and brain function. Dr. Satchin Panda's research shows thousands of genes in...

Daylighting, Architecture and Health has 2 ratings and 0 reviews. Daylighting, Architecture and Health examines the relationship between natural light in...

Light has 82 ratings and 8 reviews. ♥ Ibrahim ♥ said: His hypothesis is that the body emits energy, the body gives off light, and by changing the way in ...

Last Child in the Woods has 9,845 ratings and 1,596 reviews. Skylar said: This is typical sentence from Last Child in the Woods: he offered no academic ...

On Human Nature has 2,470 ratings and 127 reviews. Riku said: OBSERVING THE HUMAN ANIMALMany animals, especially mammals, have evolved social mecha...

Birthright has 20 ratings and 2 reviews. Andrea said: The subject matter was great, and very necessary, and Kellert is clearly an expert who has consider...

Handbook of Biophilic City Planning Design has 3 ratings and 1 review. What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningf...

Award-winning architect Amanda Sturgeon doesn’t just create beautiful buildings, she strives to design sustainable spaces that connect people with nature. Inspired by a “biophilic” design strategy, which translates to “love of life,” Amanda is determined to create projects that celebrate their surrounding environment, not shut it out.From offices to schools to hospitals, Amanda and her team are finding that biophilic buildings create spaces in which people are happier, healthier, and more productive. Watch Amanda’s 2018 TEDMED Talk to learn how her design...