A Healthy Habitat: Designing with Wellness in Mind with Joanna Frank from The Center for Active Design Joanna is President & CEO of the Center for Active Design in New York. They’re a non-profit on a mission to promote health through design in the real estate and landscape we inhabit. Now, they’re the licensed operators of Fitwel, the world’s leading certification system for optimizing buildings…
Biophilia: Not a Passing ‘Trend’ but the Long-Term Future of Architecture and Design Homes, cities, workplaces and hotels intentionally designed to reconnect people with nature are at a major inflection point Biophilic design specifically connects people with the diverse, complex natural world to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Biophilia is obviously not a new concept: The term was coined by psychologist Erich Fromm in 1964 and made popular by Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson in the 80s, whose influential book Biophilia posited that if…
