Precision manufacturing, co-opting water and designing for life and the circular economy could facilitate the epochal shift needed to respond to global heating.

Let’s talk about elephants for a second. These magnificent mammals have been on this planet for over 55 million years. Many of them live in dry, arid climates, so they’ve learned to stay cool thanks ...

This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Haresh Lalvani on Biomimicry and Architecture That Designs Itself." It’s the holy grail for any biomimicry design futurist: ...

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MICHAEL PAWLYN is a British architect with an affinity for the natural world. So he is passionate about biomimicry—a discipline that looks at nature's best ideas to inspire solutions to human problems ...

Cities could help stop climate change by imitating natural processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to architect Michael Pawlyn. Buildings could be constructed from ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When nature has a problem, evolution weeds out what doesn’t work and selects the most effective adaptations. Humans ...

Nature is often an influencer in the world of architecture. Known as biomimicry, humankind has studied nature for inspiration in solving all kinds of problems, not just architectural or building.

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