Lexiconography

I was delighted to see this posting about Veg.itecture, from Schott's Vocab Blog on the NY Times Opinion Page defined as such: "Vegetated architecture – building design that incorporates vegetation as an integral element of construction."



The post references this blog as well as Landscape+Urbanism - particularly looking back at the work of Ken Yeang, which is more than can be said for the site called dornob and the alliterative reference to 'vertical vegetecture' along with a long and unreferenced post from WebEcoist - featuring a number of notable vertical greening projects. Pretty much what we've been saying the whole time, no?


:: image via dornob

The notice validates the lack of a single non-hyphenated word to express what we're talking about when referencing the realm of vegetated architecture. As mentioned, "Schott’s Vocab is a repository of unconsidered lexicographical trifles — some serious, others frivolous, some neologized, others newly newsworthy." Trifle, yes, but I'm a bit concerned about the alternate spelling - as Vegetecture just doesn't make sense... and changing a vowel doesn't make it unique. I do like the bonus reference to 'verdant cladding' though... has a nice ring to it.