“This book is the result of 20 years of methodically observing trees through meticulous study and hand-drawing. This is a large, well made, generous book - a slow paced study that is an antidote to our fast digital world. This is an ideal gift for designers, architects and those who are drawn to the hand drawn, to nature, trees and systems thinking’.

Jo Anne

About This Book

A gorgeous, large-format volume that shows each hand-drawn illustration in stunning detail. The Architecture of Trees is the result of over twenty years of dedicated study by landscape architects Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi. This new edition preserves the original magnificent illustrations and text, translated into English for the first time. This is an essential addition to the library of architects, designers, botanists, and anyone fascinated by trees and by nature in all its varieties.

The Architecture of Trees is a legendary and unsurpassed botanical masterwork.

Details

Format: Lavish large-format Hardback volume

Size: 38.7cm x 27.4cm

Pages: 421

Illustrations: Features more than 550 exquisite quill-pen illustrations of 212 tree species. Each is drawn to a scale of 1:100, with and without foliage, complete with tables of seasonal colour variations and projections of shadows cast during the hours of daylight and season by season.

Published: 2019 (First published 1982, out of print for 2 decades, first English edition)

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press