Author: Phillip B. Roös

Dr. Phillip B. Roös is known internationally as a leader in Environmental Design. He is an ecological systems inspired architect, designer, planner and strategist for regenerative architecture, sustainable urban developments, infrastructure and landscapes. He is currently the director of the Live+Smart Research Laboratory at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University. His research interests are centred on the human-nature relationship and the identification of optimised design processes based on a regenerative-adaptive design and pattern language system. Consequently, he has developed an integral based theory towards investigating the possibilities of a holistic integrated design and planning method that re-establishes our wholeness with nature, and considers the vulnerabilities of a changing landscape. In professional practice he has been working as a design professional for over 30 years on an extensive range of small to large-scale projects in Europe, Africa and Australasia. His work is influenced by whole systems thinking and his application of environmental design is closely related to the ordering of the large-scale aspects of the environment by means of architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, biophilic design, urban design and ecological planning.