Stefano Boeri participates in an episode of The Grand Tourist, the leading podcast on art, design, and architecture by journalist Dan Rubinstein, titled Stefano Boeri: Nature’s Favorite Architect.
From the episode synopsis: Some designers push boundaries, but Italy’s leading design thinker is known for breaking them. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Milan’s Bosco Verticale, Boeri speaks with Dan about his once-radical ideas, his next major project in Nepal, and much more.
“Well, I think immediately after 2014, the opening of the Bosco Verticale, we had been asked not to replicate, but to design other, let’s say green high-rise buildings in other parts of the world. And every time we had to start, not with our, let’s say, stylistic obsession, but we start considering the climate condition of every space, of every place.
And then after observing the climate condition, we start to select the plants, the species that are more adaptable to this specific climate condition. And only at that moment, we start to act as designer, because the life trajectory of every species is, let’s say for us, extremely important when we design the facade, when we design the relation between the balcony and the loggia or between two balconies.
So 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. So if you want, we are considering trees as tenants. We are really considering their requests, their expectations, their trajectory growth,” says Stefano Boeri.
To listen to the full episode: https://thegrandtourist.net/stefano-boeri-natures-favorite-architect/