Brett Holverstott answers the question thus:
“Ultimately, biomimicry seeks to understand how we ought to integrate ourselves with nature. I find hope in the principle that, in nature, there are no hard boundaries or edges; materials merge together seamlessly. Perhaps through the emulation of nature, we will come to live more symbiotically with it, and our environments will become both closer to nature and less invasive to it.”
Complete post at: http://greenerbuildings.com/column/2008/09/08/what-can-architecture-learn-from-nature
To learn more about biomimicry and architecture/building put the GreenBuild Expo in your calendar: http://www.greenbuildexpo.org.
Also, closer to my home in San Francisco there is a one-day pre-conference session at West Coast Green on Sept 24th.
Photo Credit: Beijing National Stadium via Wikipedia