»TREES, TIME, ARCHITECTURE – Design in Constant Transformation«
Exhibition 13.03.- 14.09.2025
pinakothek-der-moderne.de/en/exhibitions/trees-time-architecture/
Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich
“Trees, Time, Architecture!” uses historical and current international examples to examine the potentials and contradictions of „building on trees“ in architecture and landscape architecture. The exhibition highlights the contrast between the slow growth of trees and the urgency of finding answers to burning ecological and social questions here and now. Trees, both living and dead, can be understood as a functional building material that characterises the built environment through their material and aesthetic qualities. Accordingly, the exhibition looks at the respective use of trees as living, constantly changing organisms and, at the same time, the materials and specific structures that trees produce through their complex growth processes. The entire lifespan is always considered and placed in relation to the temporality of functional requirements, as well as social, architectural, and technological developments. For the first time, this exhibition project addresses the topics of “Tree, Time, Architecture” from a holistic, multidimensional perspective.