Designed Forests

Auteur

Dan Handel is an architect and curator whose work focuses on underexplored ideas, figures, and practices that shape contemporary built environments. Over the past fifteen years, he has been studying the links between scientists, forest managers, and spatial designers, resulting in various exhibitions and publications on the subject.

Texte du rabat

This book explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design, the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice, and the potentials and pitfalls of "forest thinking" for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.

Contenu

Preface Introduction 1. Engineered Forests 2. Jungle 3. The Thousand-Year Forest 4. Ecological Havens 5. Ubiquitous Intelligence