Coloradoans love the outdoors and it shows up in home design preferences. Many Boulder County homeowners design their environments to provide outdoor living and bring the outdoors inside, enhancing ...

By focusing on natural and locally sourced materials, the Phinney Design Group ensures that projects blend seamlessly with the landscape, complementing their surroundings instead of standing out, says ...

Biophilic Leadership Summit presentations ranged from explorations of built projects to research on the health benefits of proximity to trees. (Foster Branding) Biologist E.O. Wilson used the term ...

The inviting new student wellness center, designed by WRNS Studio, melds a 1920s academic hall with new wings housing an array of health services.

EU researchers are exploring the role of architecture in designing living spaces that harness the healing power of nature to improve the health and well-being of urban populations. Dr. Carmen García ...

Architecture has always had a complementary - occasionally codependent - relationship with water. The Roman Domus, the Baths of Diocletian and Caracalla in Rome, and Villa Adriana in Tivoli are some ...

Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” In recent years, architects and designers have taken his advice literally. By incorporating the ...

Singapore-based design firm A Solid Plan created The Envelope House as an experiment in biophilic design and microclimates. The result? A landscaped “double-skin” design that explores new ways to ...

Biophilic design is a buzzy, but fuzzy, concept, encompassing everything from the simple act of adorning a space with potted plants all the way to complex infrastructural interventions. In simplest ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

If a person were to imagine a setting of complete relaxation, odds are the first image that comes to mind is a place surrounded by nature, be it a forest, the mountains, the sea, or a meadow. Rarely ...