With projects running from Paris to Taiwan, the award-winning French landscape architect talks about the correct approach to forests in different places around the world. Design criteria must privilege the context and nature to be effective.
Over forty years ago, with visionary sensitivity, two Italian architects conducted far-reaching, in-depth research into trees, understood as primary elements in urban and landscape design. humus followed their tracks to find out more about their thoughts and their heritage.
Can forests be welcoming? When humans enter ‘without knocking’, do they breach the balance of nature? We asked Francesco Padovan, architect from Noa, the Bolzano-based firm behind many stylish and sensitive hotel projects set in nature.
The Japanese maestro calls on architecture to recover the relationship between humans and forest: one model is his installation Domino 3.0, presented at the Biennale in Venice, in which felled tree trunks and artificial intelligence work together to create an organic structure.
These are the words of the architect and co-founder of the firm TAMassociati, specialised in social and health projects in critical areas, in a blend of civil commitment and profession.
The winner of the 2022 Pritzker Prize connected the North and South of the world through architecture, the driver of his positive energy. He states: “We have to be optimistic, or we will not be able to build the world for tomorrow, making the present better”. Here are his reasons and his story.
Not just a vocation, but a commitment to LAND, the international landscaping consultancy firm that makes nature a driver of change.
Even before plants, human survival relies on soil, as this is where all life comes from. The urban planning expert who chose to stand “on the side of soil”, as his last book is also entitled, explains why we should protect this incredible (and misunderstood) ecosystem.
