Kevin Nute – The Conversation

Wind-animated sunlight shining through a glass roof pond at the ‘Mansion of Water,’ designed by Toshihito Yokouchi, in Himeji, Japan. Kevin Nute

May 18, 2020

If you’re not getting enough nature during the lockdown, try bringing it indoors with these simple hacks

Kevin Nute, University of Hawaii

Beyond buying a fish tank or house plants, there are a number of creative ways to bring nature’s calming effects into your home.

Dancing sunlight patterns reflected onto an interior ceiling from a wind-disturbed external water surface. Kevin Nute

July 13, 2017

The next step in sustainable design: Bringing the weather indoors

Kevin Nute, University of Oregon

Research shows that bringing nature indoors, in the form of movement created by light, wind and water, makes occupants calmer and more productive. It also could promote interest in sustainable design.

On the left, Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘The Manifestation of the Peak’ (1834); on the right, Wright’s rendering of the Huntington Hartford Resort project (1947) © The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ

June 8, 2017

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Japanese education

Kevin Nute, University of Oregon

When the young Wright moved to Chicago to work for the architect Joseph Silsbee, he was introduced to Japanese prints. It changed his career, and very possibly the course of American architecture.

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