Biological and ecological forms attracted many designers from successive generations as the source of a new thought that was only possible after the electronic revolution. These forms were considered progressive views of the future architecture. Around the beginning of the third millennium, there has been a surge of interest in such bioinspiration and biomimicry — the imitation of biological traits or systems in applications ranging from architectural design and materials to robotics and engineered tissues. Biologists from all sorts of disciplines have an extraordinary store of knowledge that could guide a revolutionary breakthrough in bio-design. Such knowledge could also help to steer experimental approac...