Euronews.green
By Ben Anthony Horton & Ruth Wright
When pressed on his fascination with trees, the architect Stefano Boeri is prone to nostalgia.
”When I was a kid, I used to quote a novel written by an Italian writer, Italo Calvino, called ‘The Baron in the Trees’. It was the story of a young duke who decided, when he was 12, to abandon his family and spend the rest of his life living on the branch of a forest.”
This analogy might better explain the 64-year-old’s fascination with nature – a life-long fixation which led him to design the world’s first vertical forest.