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About Arthur Wiechula
- Arthur Wiechula (January 20, 1867 – 1941) was a German landscape engineer.
- His marriage to Lydia Lindnau, produced three children, Margarethe (1895), Max (1897) and Ernst (1900).He received the German Royal State Inventor's Honor Cross.
- In 1926, he published Wachsende Häuser aus lebenden Bäumen entstehend (Developing Houses from Living Trees) in German, describing simple building techniques involving guided grafting together of live branches; including a system of v-shaped lateral cuts used to bend and curve individual trunks and branches in the direction of a design, with reaction wood soon closing the wounds to hold the curve.He envisioned growing trees so that it constituted walls during growth, thereby enabling the use of young trees for building.
- He never built a living home, but he grew a 394-foot (120 m) wall of Canadian poplars to help keep the snow off of a section of train tracks.
- His illustrated ideas have inspired many other artists to attempt to grow living homes out of trees.
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