Journal of Biophilic Design Australia
Australia's Leading Resource for Biophilic Design, Healthy Buildings and Nature-Based Design
We're delighted to announce that The Journal of Biophilic Design is now available throughout Australia, making it easier than ever for architects, interior designers, landscape architects, urban planners, healthcare professionals, educators and sustainability specialists to access the latest thinking in Biophilic Design.
Whether you're designing healthier workplaces, hospitals, schools, aged care facilities, public spaces or homes, the Journal brings together leading international research, inspiring projects, expert interviews and practical insights into creating places where people and nature can thrive.
Now Delivered Directly from Australia
Australian customers can now purchase printed journals and subscriptions with local fulfilment across Australia.
By printing and dispatching within Australia, we're able to offer faster delivery, lower environmental impact and a smoother service for readers across the country.
Digital editions and subscriptions are also available, giving immediate access wherever you're based.
What You'll Discover
Every issue explores how Biophilic Design can improve health, wellbeing and sustainability through evidence-based design.
Topics include:
Biophilic architecture
Interior Design
Landscape Architecture
Sustainable and regenerative materials
Environmental psychology
Healthcare design
Workplace wellbeing
Schools and education
Urban design
Climate resilience
Nature-positive design
Product innovation
International case studies
Interviews with leading designers, researchers and practitioners
Our readers include architects, designers, developers, healthcare organisations, universities, local authorities and businesses committed to creating healthier, more resilient built environments.
Join the Growing Australian Biophilic Design Community
As Biophilic Design continues to grow across Australia, we're excited to support a thriving community of professionals working to reconnect people with nature through thoughtful, evidence-based design.
Whether you're looking for inspiration, the latest research or practical solutions, the Journal of Biophilic Design Australia connects you with ideas and projects from around the world, alongside innovations emerging across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Browse our latest issues, purchase individual editions or subscribe today to receive every new issue delivered directly within Australia.
Why Biophilic Design Matters in Australia
Australia is home to some of the world's most extraordinary natural landscapes, from ancient rainforests and bushland to expansive coastlines, wetlands and unique native ecosystems. This rich natural heritage has inspired generations of designers, architects and planners, making Australia an ideal place for the continued growth of Biophilic Design.
As Australia's cities continue to expand and populations grow, the need to create healthier, more sustainable places has never been greater. Biophilic Design offers an evidence-based approach that reconnects people with nature through the built environment, improving wellbeing while supporting biodiversity, climate resilience and regenerative development.
Research from around the world continues to demonstrate that access to nature and nature-inspired spaces can reduce stress, improve cognitive performance, enhance creativity, support recovery in healthcare settings and encourage social connection. Incorporating natural light, planting, water, natural materials, biodiversity and views of nature into buildings and public spaces is increasingly recognised as an essential part of creating places where people can flourish.
These principles are particularly relevant across Australia, where designers are responding to challenges including urban heat, population growth, bushfire resilience, water management and the creation of healthier cities. Nature-based design strategies such as urban greening, green roofs, living walls, regenerative landscapes, biodiversity corridors and passive environmental design are helping communities adapt while creating more resilient places for future generations.
Australia is also home to some of the world's most innovative work in sustainable architecture, landscape architecture and environmental design. Across the country, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, healthcare professionals, educators, developers and local authorities are embracing Biophilic Design to create workplaces that support wellbeing, schools that improve learning, hospitals that promote healing, and public spaces that strengthen connections between people and the natural world.
There is also growing recognition of the value of Indigenous knowledge and Country in shaping more meaningful relationships between people and place. Designing with an understanding of local ecology, seasonal patterns, native planting and cultural connection enriches projects while encouraging a deeper appreciation of Australia's diverse landscapes.
The Journal of Biophilic Design is proud to support this growing movement by bringing together international research, inspiring case studies, innovative products and thought leadership from leading practitioners around the world. Through our Australian edition and local fulfilment, we hope to make the latest knowledge, ideas and practical solutions more accessible to professionals across Australia, helping accelerate the transition towards healthier buildings, regenerative communities and a more nature-positive future.
Join Australia's growing Biophilic Design community. Explore the latest issue, subscribe to receive every edition, or discover evidence-based ideas, inspiring projects and innovative products shaping the future of healthy, regenerative design.
Digital subscription to all current and back issues of the Journal. Read on demand in your own time, day or night, anywhere in the world. Get 3 months' free access if you pay annually. It's only AU$19.95 every other month, or save and buy an annual digital subscription for AU $179.95
Subscription to this year's printed issues. You will be sent a beautiful printed copy of the Journal every other month. PLUS with this DUAL subscription, you also get online access to digital copies of the back issues of the Journal online. Read on demand in your own time, day or night. NOTE this includes Shipping to Australia. Only AU $89.95 every other month, or save and buy an annual subscription for just AU $399.95
271 PAGES OF LANDSCAPE • NATURE • BIODIVERSITY • DESIGN • CITIES • WELLBEING - Exploring how landscape can become living infrastructure for healthier people and a healthier planet.
Designing with nature, from the ground up.
Landscape is not simply what happens around a building.
It shapes how we move through cities, how we experience public spaces, how biodiversity survives, how water moves through our environments, how we encounter sound and seasonal change — and how connected we feel to the living world.
The Landscape Edition of the Journal of Biophilic Design explores the growing role of landscape architecture and landscape design in creating healthier, more biodiverse and more resilient places for people and planet.
Across 271 pages, this issue brings together landscape architects, designers, ecologists, researchers and practitioners exploring the relationship between nature, people and place.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Exploring how landscape can become an active part of architectural thinking — connecting buildings with sky, horizon, land, water and the wider landscape. The issue considers how buildings meet the ground, how inside and outside connect, and how landscape can shape our experience of place.
DESIGNING FOR BIODIVERSITY
How planting, habitat corridors, water, trees and ecological systems can become integral to the design of our environments.
THE NATIVE VS. NON-NATIVE DEBATE
A fascinating exploration of planting choices, biodiversity and the challenge of creating climate-resilient landscapes as growing conditions change.
REPAIR, RENEWAL & REGENERATION
What happens when we stop asking what we can impose on a landscape and instead ask: “What does the landscape want to be?”
LANDSCAPE & COMMUNITY
How thoughtful landscape design can strengthen local identity, create shared places and reconnect communities with the landscapes around them.
LANDSCAPE & THE WORKPLACE
Why outdoor spaces should be treated as valuable extensions of the workplace rather than simply transitional areas — supporting wellbeing, connection, collaboration and biodiversity.
NATURE, SOUND & THE SENSES
Moving beyond what we see to consider birdsong, rustling leaves, wind through grasses, rain and other natural soundscapes as part of the designed environment.
BIOPHILIC CITIES
A deeper exploration of how landscape architecture can make nature part of the infrastructure of our cities — through soil, water, canopy, habitat, comfort and equitable access.
The issue also asks an important question: who looks after biophilic landscapes once they have been designed and built? Exploring maintenance, operations, stewardship, procurement and long-term funding, it argues that successful biophilic design must survive beyond the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
FROM GARDENS TO CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE
This issue challenges the idea that landscape is simply an aesthetic layer added to architecture.
Instead, it explores landscape as living infrastructure — providing shade, habitat, water management, sensory experience, social space, biodiversity and opportunities for people to reconnect with nature.
From riparian planting and ecological corridors to pedestrian routes, urban edges and agricultural landscapes, the issue shows how biophilic thinking can extend far beyond the garden.
WHY THIS ISSUE MATTERS
The future of biophilic design cannot be created by architects alone.
It requires landscape architects, interior designers, urban planners, ecologists, horticulturalists, acoustic specialists, engineers, researchers and communities to work together.
As our Editor Vanessa Champion writes in the Final Word:
“The future of biophilic design lies in collaboration.”
This Landscape Edition explores what becomes possible when we widen that circle — and begin designing sight, sound, air, temperature, biodiversity and human experience together.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND INSIDE
271 pages
Landscape architecture
Biophilic design
Biodiversity & ecology
Planting & horticulture
Public space
Biophilic cities
Workplace landscapes
Climate resilience
Sound & sensory design
Case studies & projects
Research & thought leadership
Nature-based solutions