Francis Hallé

Francis Hallé

Francis Hallé is a French botanist, biologist and illustrator, whose research is focused on tropical forests and tree architecture.

F. Hallé (2016) 50 ans d'explorations et d'études botaniques en forêt tropicale. Museo Editors.

Together with his contemporaries, Hallé developed a catalogue of twenty-two architectural models of trees, defining a foundational rule-based system by which trees can be understood. For architects and landscape architects, this is a critical development in expanding our potential of designing with trees.

Tree architectures. F. Hallé (2017) Des données récentes sur les arbres. Bulletin Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier, vol. 48, suppl. 1.