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 resource for building material. The
essays photographs memoirs film reviews and conversations in this book are supplemented
with exemplary architectures new research perspectives and current designs. They illustrate
dynamic processes in which trees play a key role as constantly changing organisms. They invite
a transdisciplinary examination of relationships between people trees and architecture as
well as their rethinking and further development in our time of constant change and limited
resources.
