NIVERSITI UTRA ALAYSIA ABSTRACT As a highly interdisciplinary field, architecture is being influenced by many subjects of natural and social sciences. While many subject hold an indisputable effect on architecture, biological sciences is currently dominating the era. It is totally comprehensible for architects to observe, learn and copycat the natural phenomena on behalf of a better living. This biological framework evolved and shifted towards different approaches, especially with the advancements in the computer technologies and as a cause of this a better understanding of the nature’s production methods. Especially, for the last 10 years, as many literature published and many studies done, this subject becomes more popular amongst architects. This paper aims to understand these design methods under the name of biomimicry and biomimetic architecture by reviewing the literature and research work done and examines these approaches under three categories like; biomorphological design, biomimetic design and biodesign as pointing out the differences between each approaches.. Keywords: biomorphological design, biodesign, biomimicry, architecture 1 INTRODUCTION In the last 50 years, design and architecture has evolved (and continuing to evolve) to a different phase and tried to push its defined borders and started to think and act with other disciplines. In this highly interdisciplinary era, it is inevitable not to integrate different professions and disciplines into the theoretical and practical universe of architecture. Amongst many subjects; natural sciences such as physics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, social sciences, contemporary engineering topics, etc. have irreversibly affected architectural thinking. While many subjects hold an indisputable effect on architecture, it is the experiments of biological sciences who have achieved the strongest momentum, inciting the ongoing research and innovation in many subfields of architecture. Within the current degradation of the environment, nature and biology provided a good theoretical and practical framework to the designers or architects, who faced an urgency to alter their methods and reprioritize their goals (Myers, 2012). It is possible to see signs of this particular science in architecture, since the ancient times when the first architectural artefacts were created. It is only natural and totally understandable, for the mankind to observe and mimic and/or imitate the natural phenomena to build a shelter for its own kind. However, most of the time, this kind of mimicry lacks the innovation of a real biomimetic building today we are talking about. In that situation, biomimicry is interpretation of an architectural style, reflected in the overall form. (Jeronimidis & Gruber, 2012) Biomimicry as an architectural style, stays as a mere analogy of a natural form, not considering or generating the knowledge of its biological functions, and defines the entirety of a building. It is almost impossible to see any traces of biological knowledge. This kind BIOMIMETIC ARCHITECTURE A NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE Yedekci Arslan, G. * Yeni Yuzyil University, Topkapi Dr. Azmi Ofluoglu Campus, Istanbul 34010, Turkey *Corresponding author: gulayyedekci@gmail.com