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  2. Organic architecture - Wikipedia

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    Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world. This is achieved through design approaches that aim to be sympathetic and well-integrated with a site, so buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition.

  3. Category:Organic architecture - Wikipedia

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    Bruce Goff buildings (15 P) Pages in category "Organic architecture" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.

  4. Metabolism (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo displayed small apartment units (capsules) attached to a central building core.. Metabolism (Japanese: メタボリズム, Hepburn: metaborizumu, also shinchintaisha (新陳代謝)) was a post-war Japanese biomimetic architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.

  5. 25 Iconic Buildings to Visit Before You Die - AOL

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    From the Pyramids of Giza to Beijing’s CCTV building by Rem Koolhaas, these are the most iconic buildings of all time.

  6. Bionic architecture - Wikipedia

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    Bionic architecture is a contemporary movement that studies the physiological, behavioural, and structural adaptions of biological organisms as a source of inspiration for designing and constructing expressive buildings. [1]

  7. Natural building - Wikipedia

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    A small cob building with a living roof Porch of a modern timber framed home. Natural building or ecological building is a discipline within the more comprehensive scope of green building, sustainable architecture as well as sustainable and ecological design that promotes the construction of buildings using sustainable processes and locally available natural materials.

  8. 10 of the world's most stunning religious buildings - AOL

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    Not only is it among the biggest mosques in the world, it is home to one the globe's largest chandeliers and the planet's most sizeable hand-knotted carpet. 6 . Church of the Transfiguration ...

  9. Biomimetic architecture - Wikipedia

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    Biomimetic architecture is a branch of the new science of biomimicry defined and popularized by Janine Benyus in her 1997 book (Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature). ). Biomimicry (bios - life and mimesis - imitate) refers to innovations inspired by nature as one which studies nature and then imitates or takes inspiration from its designs and processes to solve human problem