What is Landskiphilia?

Landskiphilia denotes our innate affinity to landscape as expressed through our affective preferences for landscape characteristics and features including landscape patterns and compositions. It is a subset of biophlia.

Landskiphilic research

curiosity on all things landscape that influence our day-to-day, from how we interact with and as part of nature to how our environment mold our perception and psychology…

Landskiphilic design

an evidence-based approach to incorporate structure and texture in our built environment in order to create attention restorative buildings and landscapes…

Landskiphile art

Structures in the landscape that draw our attention due to their affordances give meaning and value to what we perceive, some to the extent of ensuring our survival. While the work of artists such as this one entitled “Number 28, 1950” by Jackson Pollock may have a totally unrelated inspiration, how such work of art allows the same visual perception as structural features and elements in the landscape can be uncannily landskiphilic…

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