We are again living through a turning point when old and petrified values in architecture and town planning are increasingly being called into question. The straight lines and uniformity of Bauhaus architecture are coming to an end because they are unfeeling, sterile, cold, heartless, aggressive and unemotional. The era of absolute rationalism is coming to an end. The new values are a higher quality rather than a higher standard of living, yearning for romanticism, individuality, creativity, especially creativity and a life in harmony with nature.
Man has three skins. His own, his clothes and his dwelling. All these three skins must renew themselves, continually grow and change.
Houses are growing things like trees. Houses grow like plants, live and continually change.
Current architecture is criminally sterile since unfortunately every building process stops when the people move into their quarters though normally the reorganization of the living space should only begin when people have moved in.
We suffocate in our cities through poison and lack of oxygen. We destroy systematically the vegetation which gives us life and lets us breathe. We walk alongside grey and sterile facades of houses.
It is our duty to reinstall the rights of nature with all means.
The tree tenant symbolizes a turn in human history because he regains his rank as an important partner of man.
We must build houses where nature is above us. It is our duty to put nature, which we destroy by building the house, back on the roof.
We must restore all territories, which we illegally took from nature. Free nature must grow where snow falls in winter. All that is white in winter must be green in summer.
The horizontal belongs to nature.
Woods shall grow on streets and roofs. One must again be able to breathe woodland air in the cities.
The relationship between men and trees must gain a religious dimension.
Then one will understand that it is true if we say:
The straight line is godless and immoral.