Architecture and the forest aesthetic: a new look at design and resilient urbanism

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented.

This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration in the language of design, thus recognizing the forest as essential rather than just incidental to human well-being.

In 'Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic,' forest is a large-scale urban construct that is far more extensive and nuanced than trees and shrubbery.

The forest aesthetic opens designers to the forest as a model for an urban architecture of permeable floors, protective canopies, connected food chains, beneficial decomposition, and resilient ecologies.