The Unplannned Element

I notice trees the way you notice something you've always seen but never really looked at — as the one thing a building can't replace, the element every architect plants and every city funds but nothing designed can fully replicate. This series accumulated over years, across dozens of places: a palm surviving a demolished Vegas motel, birches against Mies in a Chicago winter, bougainvillea climbing a wall in Uruguay, dry trees threading through Doshi's campus in Bangalore. The buildings change. The trees insist.