Botanical Architecture | Plants, Buildings and Us

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How might our buildings be more like trees - structures that live and grow rather than ones that require the depletion of the natural world? Using his new book Botanical Architecture as a guide, Paul Dobraszczyk asks what plants might teach us about building and explores how plants themselves are a type of architecture. How can we design with plants and become more attuned to vegetal life in our structures? Can we build as much for plants as for ourselves, understanding that our lives are always totally dependent on theirs?

This talk, and the book it draws from, offer a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.

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This is an in-person event at the Linnean Society of London on Piccadilly, London. If you have chosen to 'watch a recording', a link will be sent to you within a week of the event.

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