Designed Forests
A Cultural History
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 November 2024
- ISBN 9781032753188
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages190 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 41 Illustrations, black & white; 41 Halftones, black & white 616
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Short description:
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.
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Designed Forests: A Cultural History 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. It tackles these subjects by focusing on architecture?s own dispositions, which stem from an ecology of metaphor that surrounds its encounters with the forest and undergird ideas about Nature and natural systems. The book weaves together global narratives and chapters explore a range of topics, such as the invention of forest plans in colonial India, the war waged on the jungles of Vietnam, economic land use concepts in rural Germany, precolonial ecological pasts in Manhattan, and technologically saturated forests in California. This book is essential for landscape architects, urbanists, architects, forestry experts, and everyone concerned with larger environmental contexts and the ever-evolving relationship between nature and culture.
Read an edited extract featured on Koozarch.
?Forests cover over four billion hectares of our planet earth. In his brilliant book, Dan Handel reminds us that our forests project a powerful image of nature even though they are constructed, man-made and totally designed. Handel skillfully weaves together a riveting narrative inextricably linking forest to culture, geography, and our human condition.?
Professor Brigitte Shim, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto
"In the process of asking questions about how forests are rationalized culturally, Handel advances the political control of reforestation, which ultimately reveals that making or conserving forests is a design project. Outside of the current environmental crisis, what this book
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