Tree Speech

Sylvia Lavin

doi:10.4067/S0717-69962021000200032

Tree Speech

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Abstract

Unlike buildings, trees do not need architects or builders to rise. Not only do they reproduce and grow without polluting, but their shape resists any design. Perhaps that is why, whenever architecture includes them, it organizes them in grids or rows to make the design evident. Taking advantage of the politically correct character of the plant material, a part of architecture instrumentalizes the trees, giving them agency as symbols but denying it to them as living entities.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	32-43
Number of pages	12
Journal	ARQ
Volume	2021
Issue number	108
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-69962021000200032
State	Published - Aug 2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Conservation
Architecture
Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Keywords

Ambientalismo
Arborealismo
Essay
Representation
Vegetation

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