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- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesNo, this isn't the work of some gigantic bird. The living <a href="http://inhabitat.com/art/">art</a> you see before you was actually done by man - more specifically, artist and branchbender extraordinaire <a href="http://www.stickwork.net/">Patrick Dougherty</a>. Crafting human-sized <a href="http://inhabitat.com/grow-your-own-treehouse/">nest houses</a> made by actually <a href="http://inhabitat.com/video-grow-a-living-treehouse-with-terreform/">weaving growing trees into the shapes of houses</a>, cocoons, pagodas, huts, giant water pitchers and even people, Dougherty has traveled the world with his truly extraordinary sculptures. Click through our photo gallery for images of some of his coolest work.1
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesThis one, dubbed "Call of the Wild" has a surrealist feeling to it. Kinda makes you thirsty, no?2
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesWho says living art has to reside outside? This one, called "Crossing Over" made its home inside the American Craft Museum.3
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesThe "Summer Palace."4
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesNa Hale 'o waiawi (Hawaiian for Wild Dwellings Built from Strawberry Guava).5
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesDougherty's pieces almost look animated. Doesn't this one remind you of a group of kids trying to get into a window?6
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesThis installation entitled "Trailheads" at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC would be an ideal playhouse for a group of kids (or adults for that matter!)7
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesDougherty doesn't limit his subject matter to dwellings. This one, called Nine Lives, is a study of the human form8
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesLike a quaint hobbit home, this twiggy residence sprung up at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in 2005.9
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesSee the guy standing in the doorway? It really gives you a sense of how big these installations actually are.10
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesMr. Dougherty, who is now in his 60s, has a portfolio of over 200 amazing pieces from houses that look like a grove of trees to large pavilions that seem to have been built by a beaver. We call it art, but he calls it "stickwork." That's also what he named his book of thirty-eight of his most eye-catching these works which was published last year....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/patrick-doughertys-mind-blowing-nest-houses-made-of-living-trees/'>READ ARTICLE</a>11
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesReminiscent of Russian architecture, this dome-topped installation looks great against a snowy background.12
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesSome of Dougherty's works are composed of simple forms - not this one! Imagine how much time and effort went into those arches!13
- Patrick Dougherty Living Tree HousesNot all of Dougherty's works reside on the ground. This one, called Cell Division, proves that his art is just as effective on the side of a building.14