A few weeks ago I was looking for some image references for an industrially-inspired cooling pergola when I stumbled upon some great photos of industrial decay on Flickr. Most of these photographs were of mysterious machinery and other oddities lost to time, but a few them had plants fighting their way into these spaces. I had a sudden epiphany as to why I had never thought of my thesis, or at least the process of "stratified overgrowth", as a mutation? Read More »