Ferdinand Ludwig is a German architect and the head of the professorship for Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture at the Technical University of Munich.
[1] Ludwig is a pioneer of and innovator in the field of Baubotanik, the architectural realm of living plant construction.
[1] Ludwig began as an architecture student and graduated from the University of Stuttgart in 2012 with a dissertation titled “The Botanical Fundamentals of Baubotanik and their Application in Design”.
[1] In 2005 he along with Hannes Schwertfeger and Oliver Storz build planting they referred to as “Baubotanik buildings” [2] In 2007, he co-founded the research group “Baubotanik” at the University of Stuttgart’s Institute of Architectural Theory and Design (IGMA) and served as a head research associate until 2017.
[4][5][6] The central focus of Ludwig’s research concerns integrating the growth processes of living plants into architectural design and construction.