Euskadiko Arkitektura Institutua hosts ARBORETUM: TREES AS ARCHITECTURE

The Basque Country Architecture Institute - Euskadiko Arkitektura Institutua / Instituto de Arquitectura de Euskadi - in San Sebastián, Spain is hosting the exhbition, ARBORETUM: TREES AS ARCHITECTURE from March 25 to April 6, 2024. The exhibition originated in 2021 at Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture in Bordeaux, France. The exhibition includes a commissioned video, The Finely-Textured Canopy of Modernism, by Ron Henderson with Sarah Hanson and Sergio Salgado of Furnace FPS, which expresses the living vitality of Alfred Caldwell’s grove of honey locusts at Crown Hall on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology.

Although the precision of materials such as bricks contrasts with the unpredictability of elements such as branches or roots, the truth is that trees occupy an important place in the history of architecture. On the one hand, they have been the source of one of the main building materials for centuries. On the other hand, they are one of the fundamental elements of architectural design and urban development projects. Sometimes preserved, sometimes integrated in different interventions, trees often coincide with the intentions of architecture, urban planning and landscaping professionals.

photo: Mikel Blasco