Ferdinand Ludwig

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Ferdinand Ludwig is a German architect and the head of the professorship for Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture at the Technical University of Munich. [1] Ludwig is a pioneer of and innovator in the field of Baubotanik, the architectural realm of living plant construction. [1]

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Academic career and research areas

Ludwig began as an architecture student and graduated from the University of Stuttgart in 2012 with a dissertation titled “The Botanical Fundamentals of Baubotanik and their Application in Design”. [1] In 2005 he along with Hannes Schwertfeger and Oliver Storz build planting they referred to as “Baubotanik buildings” [2] In 2007, he co-founded the research group “Baubotanik” at the University of Stuttgart’s Institute of Architectural Theory and Design (IGMA) and served as a head research associate until 2017. [3] Along with Daniel Schönle in 2010, Ludwig created “ludwig.schönle: Baubotanik - Architecture - Urbanism”, a collaborative office centering on incorporating the baubotanik approach in urban planning and architectural design. [1] Ludwig has designed and created numerous Baubotanik projects around Germany, such as the Plane-Tree-Cube in Nagold in 2012, a Baubotanik Tower in 2009, and a Baubotanik Footbridge in 2005. [4] [5] [6]

The central focus of Ludwig’s research concerns integrating the growth processes of living plants into architectural design and construction. [7] [1] The plan is to build a structure suitable to guide the trees growth into the desired form. [2] Merging living plants with architectural construction allows for the exploration [2] of the creative and functional uses of plants in the context of building engineering. [8] [9] The concept of Baubotanik is not only relevant in the fields of architecture and landscape architecture, but has increasingly been recognized as an adaptation method to climate change. [3] [9] Ludwig’s work additionally centers on the technical challenges that arise in Baubotanik, thereby broadening architectural knowledge by confronting aspects of growth and decay, and probability and chance in architectural design. [1]

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Key publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "TUM Professoren - Ludwig_Ferdinand". www.professoren.tum.de. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Thomas Vallas (25 May 2017). "Using nature in architecture Building a living house with mycelium and trees". Frontiers of Architectural Research. peer reviewer Luc Courard.
  3. 1 2 "Ferdinand Ludwig". European Green Infrastructure Conference. Archived from the original on 2020-06-12. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  4. ↑ "BAUBOTANIK TOWER - Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture". www.ar.tum.de. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  5. ↑ "BAUBOTANIK FOOTBRIDGE - Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture". www.ar.tum.de. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  6. ↑ "PLANE-TREE-CUBE - Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture". www.ar.tum.de. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  7. ↑ "Baubotanik". futurearchitectureplatform.org. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  8. ↑ “Ferdinand Ludwig Builds Hybrids of Living Nature and Technology.” Designboom, 10 Nov. 2016, www.designboom.com/architecture/egger-ferdinand-ludwig-baubotanik-nature-11-10-2016/.
  9. 1 2 "ferdinand ludwig builds hybrids of living nature and technology". designboom | architecture & design magazine. 2016-11-10. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  10. 1 2 "Ferdinand Ludwig –Autores". ARQA (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-13.
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