Books
Browning, William, Catherine Ryan, and Joseph Clancy. 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design: Improving Health & Well-Being in the Built Environment. New York: Terrapin Bright Green, 2014. https://www.terrapinbrightgreen.com/reports/14-patterns/.
Gibson, James William. A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature. New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, 2009.
Gombrich, E. H. The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979.
Greyson, Lauren. Vital Reenchantments: Biophilia, Gaia, Cosmos, and the Affectively Ecological. Goleta, CA: Punctum Books, 2019. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.2353889.
Kaplan, Rachel, and Stephen Kaplan. The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Kellert, Stephen R. Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
———. Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia in Human Evolution and Development. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.
———. Nature by Design: The Practice of Biophilic Design. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.
Kellert, Stephen R., and Edward O. Wilson, eds. The Biophilia Hypothesis. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993.
Kellert, Stephen R., Judith Heerwagen, and Martin Mador. Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
Keltner, Dacher. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2023.
Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Revised edition. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008.
Mandelbrot, Benoit B. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. 1977. Updated edition. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1982.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Williams, Florence. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2017.
Wilson, Edward O. Biophilia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Journal Articles and Scientific Studies
Barbiero, Giuseppe, and Chiara Marconato. “Biophilia as Emotion.” Visions for Sustainability 6 (November 2016): 45–51. https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions/article/view/1755/1642.
Flannery, Maura C. “Jellyfish on the Ceiling and Deer in the Den: The Biology of Interior Decoration.” Leonardo 38, no. 3 (2005): 239–44. https://doi.org/10.1162/0024094054029056.
Hung, Ruyu. “Journeying between Home and Nature: A Geo-Phenomenological Exploration and Its Insights for Learning.” Environmental Values 19, no. 2 (May 2010): 233–51. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30302348.
Joye, Yannick. “Architectural Lessons from Environmental Psychology: The Case of Biophilic Architecture.” Review of General Psychology 11, no. 4 (2007): 305–28. https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.11.4.305.
Kaplan, Stephen. “The Restorative Benefits of Nature: Toward an Integrative Framework.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 15, no. 3 (September 1995): 169–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/0272-4944(95)90001-2.
Mayer, F. Stephan, and Cynthia McPherson Frantz. “The Connectedness to Nature Scale: A Measure of Individuals’ Feeling in Community with Nature.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 24, no. 4 (December 2004): 503–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2004.10.001.
Monroy, Maria, and Dacher Keltner. “Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 18, no. 2 (2023): 309–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221094856.
Nisbet, Elizabeth K., John M. Zelenski, and Steven A. Murphy. “The Nature Relatedness Scale: Linking Individuals’ Connection with Nature to Environmental Concern and Behavior.” Environment and Behavior 41, no. 5 (2009): 715–40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916508318748.
Piff, Paul K., Pia Dietze, Matthew Feinberg, Daniel M. Stancato, and Dacher Keltner. “Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behavior.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 108, no. 6 (2015): 883–99. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000018.
Salingaros, Nikos A. “Fractal Art and Architecture Reduce Physiological Stress.” Journal of Biourbanism 2, no. 2 (2012): 11–28. https://journalofbiourbanism.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/jbu-ii-2012-2_nikos-a-salingaros.pdf.
Taylor, Richard P. “Reduction of Physiological Stress Using Fractal Art and Architecture.” Leonardo 39, no. 3 (2006): 245–51. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon.2006.39.3.245.
Taylor, Richard P., Adam P. Micolich, and David Jonas. “Fractal Analysis of Pollock’s Drip Paintings.” Nature 399, no. 422 (June 1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/20833.
Ulrich, Roger. S. “View through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery.” Science 224, no. 4647 (April 1984): 420–21. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.6143402.
Ulrich, Roger S., Robert F. Simons, Barbara D. Losito, Evelyn Fiorito, Mark A. Miles, and Michael Zelson. “Stress Recovery during Exposure to Natural and Urban Environments.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 11, no. 3 (September 1991): 201–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(05)80184-7.
Vining, Joanne, Melinda S. Merrick, and Emily A. Price. “The Distinction between Humans and Nature: Human Perceptions of Connectedness to Nature and Elements of the Natural and Unnatural.” Human Ecology Review 15, no. 1 (Summer 2008): 1–11. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24707479.
On the Designers, Artists, and Architects
Carbonell, Nacho. De Rebus Natura. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Lecturis, 2015.
Gang, Jeanne, ed. Studio Gang: Architecture. London: Phaidon, 2022.
———. The Art of Architectural Grafting. Zurich: Park Books, 2024.
Ingels, Bjarke, Beatrice Leanza, William Myers, et. al. DRIFT: Choreographing the Future. London: Phaidon, 2022.
Laarman, Joris. Joris Laarman: Lab. New York: August Editions, 2017.
Lee, Laura. Worlds Unbound: The Art of teamLab. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2022.
Lepik, Andres, and Andre Santner, eds. Metropol Parasol: J. Mayer H. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2011.
Ma Yansong. MAD Rhapsody. With contributions by Paul Goldberger and Philip Jodidio. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021.
———. Shanshui City. With contributions by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lorenza Baroncelli, et al. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2015
Rus, Mayer, Susan Weber, and David Wiseman. David Wiseman. Edited by Ari Wiseman. With a contribution by Bobbye Tigerman. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2020.
Sudjic, Deyan, Glenn Adamson, Richard Dyer, and Caroline Roux. Fredrikson Stallard: Works. Milan: Skira Editore, 2019.
Van Herpen, Iris, and Cloe Pitiot. Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo Publishers, 2023.