How can trees be used as a direct element in architecture to directly exploit both their spatial effect and their ecological qualities? Due to climate change and the resulting constant changes to our environment, we are building for a future that is much less certain than it was just a few decades ago. Ferdinand Ludwig, curator and holder of the Chair of Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture at TUM Munich, sets students in his seminar the task of analysing an existing construction project and reproducing its complexity in the form of a wire model. Wire models serve to understand and represent the complex forms of living architectures worldwide by reproducing historical, current or possible future states.

The exhibition TREES, TIME, ARCHITECTURE! DESIGN IN CONSTANT TRANSFORMATION at the TUM Architecture Museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne runs until 14 September 2025.

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