# Why Healthcare Buildings Make Me Feel Better (Or Worse): What I’ve Learned About Nature’s Role in Medical Spaces You know how some places just make you feel awful the…
When I think about industrial buildings – the factories where I spent my career, warehouses, manufacturing plants – what comes to mind is concrete, steel, exposed pipes. Pure function, nothing…
I never thought I’d become the kind of parent who gets excited about library architecture, but here we are. It started when my daughter was struggling with reading focus and…
When my daughter sent me an article about Singapore's approach to urban design a few years back, I figured it would be another one of those feel-good pieces about putting…
I never thought I’d become the kind of dad who researches gazebo construction techniques, but here we are. It started when my kids kept asking to build a “secret hideout”…
Okay, so I’ve been seeing these photos on Instagram lately of high-rise buildings that look absolutely nothing like my sad pre-war brick box, and I had to dig into what’s…
When I first started reading about something called biophilic design a few years back, it struck me as one of those fancy terms for what my grandmother’s generation knew instinctively.…
# Natural Biophilic Elements: My Journey Bringing the Outdoors Inside I keep thinking about this little cafe I stumbled across during a weekend trip to this coastal town in Oregon…
# The Ultimate Biophilic Game Room: Creating My Nature-Gaming Paradise You know that feeling when you walk into a space and immediately think “wow, I could hang out here forever”?…
Okay, let me just say this upfront: most college campuses feel like depressing concrete bunkers where happiness goes to die. I know because I spent four years on one, and…
I’ll be honest – when I first heard about “vertical gardens” or “living walls,” I thought it sounded like one of those expensive designer trends that regular homeowners like me…
# Dreaming of Cities Where Nature Actually Lives I spend way too much time daydreaming about what cities could actually be like if we stopped pretending that concrete boxes are…
I’ve been following this designer’s work documenting how nature-focused design transforms nursing homes, and honestly, it’s made me think completely differently about how our environments affect our wellbeing. Living in…
# When Nature Gets Smart: My Journey Into Biophilic Design and Technology I recently visited a friend’s new place, and honestly, it completely changed how I think about combining nature…
When I started reading about biophilic design for my home office setup, I kept running into references to traditional ecological knowledge and something called “biocultural conservation.” Initially, I was just…