DesigNature

Fared, Meor Mohammad (2010) DesigNature. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition (STEDex’10), 2. pp. 18-19. ISSN 2180-0685

Abstract

Nature, in her grand splendour and purest form, has been a source of inspiration for artists, designers and architects throughout the ages. Vitruvius, the 1st century Roman architect, asserted that “architecture is an imitation of nature”. In his treatise, Ten Books on Architecture, he elaborated that “as birds and bees built their nests, so humans constructed housing from natural materials that gave them shelter against the elements”.

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