The first issue of The Grand Tourist, the print extension of journalist Dan Rubinstein’s leading podcast on art, design, and architecture, features “A Towering Intellect,” an in-depth interview with Stefano Boeri marking the tenth anniversary of Milan’s Bosco Verticale.
The article traces Boeri’s personal background and the genesis of the Milanese project, while also presenting Bosco Verticale: Morphology of a Vertical Forest (Rizzoli), the comprehensive monograph curated by Stefano Boeri Architetti. It explores the studio’s design philosophy and vision, as well as key projects around the world.
“After observing the climate conditions, we started to select the plants, the species that are more adaptable to this specific climate condition. And only at that moment we started to act as designers because the life trajectory of every species is, for us, extremely important when we design the façade, when we design the relation between the balcony and the lodger or between two balconies.
We have to give to every tree, to every shrub, to every bush, to every plant the space for its growth. And this is a completely different way to design a building. If you want, we are considering trees as tenants. We are really considering their requests, their expectations, their trajectory growth, and so we have in a way introduced botany in our knowledge.
And this is still extremely intriguing and interesting. And this explains also why all the Vertical Forests that we have designed in the Netherlands, in China, in Egypt are different because every time we start again,” says Stefano Boeri.
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