Botanical Architecture: Plants, Buildings and Us - Paul Dobraszczyk
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 Linnean Society video talk, and the book it draws from, offer a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.
Dr Paul Dobraszczyk is a lecturer in the history and theory of architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and the author of many books, the most recent being Animal Architecture: Beasts, Buildings and Us (Reaktion, 2023), and Architecture and Anarchism: Building Without Authority (Paul Holberton, 2021).
