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The Architecture of Trees by Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi hardcover book, white cover with detailed quill-pen tree illustration in green typography
The Architecture of Trees open spread showing Cornaceae and Ebenaceae tree illustrations in winter and summer form at 1:100 scale
The Architecture of Trees open spread showing one tree species illustrated in bare winter form and full summer foliage at 1:100 scale
The Architecture of Trees interior page detail showing large quill-pen illustration of a full-canopy tree in summer foliage
The Architecture of Trees open spread showing asymmetric Paulownia tree illustrated in bare and leafed form side by side
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The Architecture of Trees

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First published in Italian in 1982 and out of print for two decades, The Architecture of Trees is a landmark botanical and architectural study — now available for the first time in English. Italian architect-designers Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi spent more than twenty years completing it: over 400 quill-pen illustrations of 211 tree species, each drawn to a precise scale of 1:100, depicted with and without foliage, alongside tables of seasonal colour variation and shadow projections across the hours and seasons.

The result is one of the most extraordinary acts of sustained observation in design publishing — as useful to architects and landscape designers as it is beautiful to anyone who simply loves trees. A large-format volume of genuine permanence, and one of those rare books that earns the word essential.