The close relationship between the formation of consciousness and movement has been linked by numerous authors since antiquity with a second relationship. That of architecture and nature; be it in an interplay of walking and thinking in buildings, which allows nature to flow in as a motif and motive of the imagination, be it an architecturally designed nature that affects mental activity through pathways, or be it a consolidation of the thoughts formed in architecture in nature - a transfer from speculative isolation into living practice.

Within this frame of reference, there are many different models of movement in and through architecture and nature that are to be discussed by theoreticians and practitioners from the fields of architecture, philosophy and art history.