Arthur Wiechula

His marriage to Lydia Lindnau, produced three children, Margarethe (1895), Max (1897) and Ernst (1900).

[1] He received the German Royal State Inventor's Honor Cross.

[citation needed] In 1926, he published Wachsende Häuser aus lebenden Bäumen entstehend [2] (Developing Houses from Living Trees) in German,[3][4] describing simple building techniques involves guiding and grafting live branches together; 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.

[3] He never built a living home, but he grew a 394-foot (120 m) wall of Canadian poplars to help keep the snow off a section of train tracks.

[4] His illustrated ideas have inspired many other artists to attempt to grow a house of trees.