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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
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.