Trees, Time, Architecture!: Design in Constant Transformation

by Andjelka Badnjar Gojnic (Editor), Kristina Pujkilovic (Editor), Ferdinand Ludwig (Editor), Andres Lepik (Editor)

Argues that the use of living trees in contemporary architecture can help cities adapt to climate change.

Trees, Time, Architecture! marks an evolutionary step from shaping objects towards designing processes. The volume brings together a variety of views on the relationship between trees and architecture, urban spaces, modernism, politics, feminism, and cultural values. This collage of historical, research-based and discourse-related perspectives looks at how trees can be preserved, used, and appreciated in the Anthropocene. It highlights historic examples of growing architecture, such as the living root bridges of the Khasi people in India, the accommodation of trees in urban housing and public spaces, novel approaches to design and construction with living trees, as well as trees as a resource for building material.