Lotus 135 (2008)

The neo-naturalistic metaphor that pervades not just art and architecture but design too is influenced predominantly by the imagery of the new biological sciences. These metaphors reflect an aspiration to bring constructions closer to the biosphere, i.e. to confer on them a sort of vitality that evokes the desire to overcome the traditional contrast between nature and artifice.

 

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Joel Meyerowitz
A Year in the Parks

Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Vulcano Buono, Nola, Napoli
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects
Island City Central Park GRIN GRIN, Fukuoka, Japan

Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Guggenheim Museum, Tokyo

Francesco Repishti
Green Architecture. Oltre la metafora
Green Architecture. Beyond the Metaphor

Herzog & De Meuron
National Stadium, Beijing

Narchitects
Windshape, Lacoste, France

Tokujin Yoshioka

Foreign Office Architects
Complejo Tecnologico de la Rioja, Logroño, España
Carabanchel Housing, Madrid

Kengo Kuma & Associates
Z58, Shangai, China
Chokkura Plaza, Takanezawa, Shioya-gun, Tochigi, Japan

Droog Design

Topotek1
Garden Show Eberswalde, Eberswalde, Deutschland

VenhoevenCS
Sportplaza Marcator, Amsterdam

Boeri Studio
Torre Z.I.P., Padova

Frédéric Druot, Lacaton & Vassal
Plus, 2007

Patrick Blanc
Vertical Gardens

Francis Soler
Ministère de la Culture
et de la Communication, Paris

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Matteo Vercelloni
Mimesis, design e natura/Mimesis, Design and Nature

Petra Blaisse, Inside-Outside
Multi-Functional Curtain and wall, Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart

Studio Tord Boontje

Patricia Urquiola

Andrea Branzi
Open Enclosures, Fondation Cartier, Paris

Cecil Balmond
Element

Fernando e Humberto Campana

Giuliano Mauri
Cattedrale Vegetale, Borgo Valsugana, Italia

Giuseppe Penone
Sculture di linfa/Sap Sculptures, 2007
e altro/and others

Olafur Eliasson
Notion Motion, 2005 e altro/and others

Pierluigi Nicolin
Biopolitica e architettura
Biopolitics and Architecture