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I do not support any romantic bio‐morphic architecture. I advocate an architecture that arises from a respect of nature in its complexity, not only its visual characteristics, and from empathy and loyalty to all forms of life and a humility about our own destiny.

Indeed, architecture cannot regress; all life forms and strategies of nature keep developing and refining. The magnitude of our problems calls for extremely refined, responsive and subtle technologies.

It is becoming evident that we have distanced ourselves too far from nature with grave consequences. The research of the Finnish allergiologist Tari Haahtela has shown convincingly that many of the so‐called ‘civilization diseases’, such as all allergies, diabetes, depression, many types of cancer, and even obesity, are consequences of living in too sterile and ‘artificial’ environments. We have destroyed the natural bacterial habitats in our intestines. This specialist in allergies tells us that he has never met an allergy patient ‘with earth under his fingernails’.¹⁷