Has biomimetics arrived in architecture?

Architecture and construction are highly interdisciplinary fields, integrating many professions and many disciplines on different levels of scale and complexity. Studies of natural systems have at all times been inspirational for design. Investigating the overlaps between biology and architecture we find that a biological paradigm inspires the current frontier of research and innovation in many sectors. Using biology's categories to analyse the field we discover many 'signs of life' in architecture projects, and many researchers are actively involved with ways to implement more and more aspects of life into buildings without calling themselves biomimeticists. Meanwhile the architectural landscape has adopted biomimetics, bionics, biologically inspired design or biomimicry as valid strategies. However, it still lacks a showcase of innovative products or real breakthrough in the form of a 'really biomimetic building'. This implies the interpretation of biomimetics as an architectural style, defining the entirety of a building, best reflected in the overall form.