Designing Buildings (DB) – host and partner to the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – has posted on its open access Wiki service a listing of linked built and natural environment terms etc..
DB writes:
The influence of and reaction to nature and the natural world can be seen in many of the different architectural styles that have developed since humans first started to build shelters. The specific way in which nature and its biological systems influence, inspire, form, or interact with the built form has led to a number of different terms, philosophies, approaches, and styles of design, architecture, and engineering, some of which are described below.
Dominant influences: The influence and impact of the built environment and all its supply chains on the natural world…
Symbiotic relations: In around 2010, the Professor of Sustainability and environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the phrases solastalgia and symbiocene. Where nostalgia describes melancholia or homesickness through separation, solastalgia describes distress in people directly connected to their home but caused by environmental change…
Differing terminologies:
- Arts and Crafts…
- Biodesign…
- Biophilic design…
- Bio-inspired design…
- Biomorphism…
- Biophilia…
- Bionics…
- Biobased…
- Biomaterials…
- Bio-diverse…
- Ecological design…
- Ecophilia…
- Environmental design…
- Eutierria…
- Natural building…
- Nature-based solutions…
- Organic architecture…
- Sustainable design…
- Soliphilia…
- Topophilia…
See the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki
