This year’s edition of the Salon Art + Design fair at the Park Avenue Armory is back with 54 galleries, five special exhibitions and new leadership.

Indeed, the design of buildings to mimic how nature functions “is limitless, since nature has no bounds,” according to Parametric Architecture’s website, a media company that researches art, ...

Magazzino Italian Art Museum in Cold Spring, N.Y., and the Russel Wright Design Center in nearby Garrison deliver ecological messages (meadows, donkeys, and a waterfall included).

If the nature we desire is, in fact, its expression as untamed wildness, then we should turn to the creativity of artists as well as urban designers when building our cities.