Arthur Wiechula (January 20, 1867 – 1941) was a

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landscape engineer. His marriage to Lydia Lindnau, produced three children, Margarethe (1895), Max (1897) and Ernst (1900). He received the German Royal State Inventor's Honor Cross. In 1926, he published ''Wachsende Häuser aus lebenden Bäumen entstehend'' (Developing Houses from Living Trees) in

, describing simple building techniques involves guiding and

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live branches together; including a system of v-shaped lateral cuts used to bend and curve individual trunks and branches in the direction of a design, with

reaction wood Reaction wood in a woody plant is wood that forms in place of normal wood as a response to gravity, where the cambial cells are oriented other than vertically. It is typically found on branches and leaning stems. It is an example of mechanical accl ...

soon closing the wounds to hold the curve. He envisioned growing

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so that it constituted walls during growth, thereby enabling the use of young trees for

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. He never built a living home, but he grew a wall of Canadian poplars to help keep the snow off a section of train tracks. His illustrated ideas have inspired many other artists to attempt to grow a house of trees.

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