The best lessons in creativity come from nature
DATE
13.07.2026
Architecture, considered by many an art, a science, a vocation… has accompanied humankind since the beginning of time. But the first great monuments and architectural works were not made by human hands. The one who designed and built the world to be a world, as we know it today, was nature.
The origin of pure geometries, patterns and rhythms, structural efficiency: all are concepts that we can perceive in any living being in the natural environment, both in their physical structures and in the vital and survival cycles of all members, small and large, within an ecosystem.
(1) House of Hungarian Music, Budapest, Sou Fujimoto Architects.
That is why, when it comes to solving a crossroads in our creative and architectural projects, the best lessons can be right before our eyes. Evolution is one of the longest research processes of all time. The result of trial after trial, these are the most effective strategies for creating bodies and structures.
(2) Basílica de la Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Antoni Gaudí. (3) Gherkin Tower, London, Foster + Partners (4) National Stadium, Beijing, Herzog & de Meuron.
Many have found answers to great construction dilemmas in nature, from Norman Foster to Kengo Kuma, not forgetting the great master and pioneer in this field, Gaudí, who wisely stated that his reference book was nature itself.
(5) Birch Moss Chapel, Nagano, Japan, Kengo Kuma. (6) Fallingwater, Pennsylvania, USA, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Finally, I would like to highlight a moment from the archive of Kengo Kuma’s exhibition at the New Art Museum in Karuizawa, in which the architect reflects on a change that has shaped his thinking since the early 1990s. Architecture, he explains, should not exist separately from nature, but rather learn to behave based on it.
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