Guest Lecture by Sylvia Lavin

May 13, 2025

Trees Make a Plan

Architecture was once a plant not just the grasslands that sheltered early homo sapiens or the trees used for the so-called primitive huts. Nor is it limited to the vegetal logic of wood in Egyptian and Greek temples, central to prevailing narratives of Western architectural evolution. Rather, it is also the overlooked, unnamed plants that quietly structure the modern professional practice of architecture.