Arthur Wiechula

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Arthur Wiechula (born January 20, 1867 ; † 1941 ) was a German landscape architect. He was married to Lydia Lindnau and had three children, Margarethe (* 1895), Max (* 1897) and Ernst (* 1900).

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In 1926 he published his work Growing Houses from Living Trees , in which he describes how buildings can be easily created from living twigs and branches. Wiechula explains, among other things, how the branches can be bent with the help of V-shaped cuts so that they grow together again and keep the given shape. He probably never built a building out of living wood, but at least a 120 meter long wall out of Canadian poplars. The purpose of this wall was to keep snow away from train tracks. Over the course of time, his ideas have inspired many artists to grow entire buildings out of living trees .

  • Living arbor in Bad Grönenbach

  • Living arbor in Bad Grönenbach

  • Branch network of a living arbor

Publications

  • The small farm as a business, business and warrior home , 1919, 224 pages
  • Germany's recovery through self-feeding , 1920, 79 pages
  • Settlements without down payment and cheapest procurement of food , 1921, 156 pages
  • Growing houses from living trees , 1926, 320 pages
  • Wooden houses with the participation of nature , 1927, 46 pages

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konstantin Kirsch: Natural buildings made of living wood . Ed .: OLV, Organischer Landbau-Verl. Lukewarm. 1996, ISBN 978-3-922201-17-5 , pp. 82 .
  2. ↑ Arthur Wiechula: Growing houses from living trees . Ed .: Verl. Naturbau-Ges. 1926, p. 320 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wiechula, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1867
DATE OF DEATH 1941