IQD 81 Architecture and Nature Reconciled

October > December 2025

The renewed prominence of architecture’s relationship with nature in contemporary discourse often conceals a troubling superficiality. Too frequently, the aspiration to harmony is reduced to symbolic gestures: trees placed on balconies, green roofs deployed as ecological signifiers rather than as instruments of spatial or environmental transformation. True reconciliation between built environment and nature calls for a deeper approach, one capable of rethinking materials, resources, and the relationship with place.