Lindsey Wikstrom

Document Type

Video

Date

Winter 2-28-2023

Keywords

Mass Timber, Technology

Language

English

Disciplines

Architectural Technology | Architecture | Environmental Design | Other Architecture

Description/Abstract

In the new book, Designing the Forest, and Other Mass Timber Futures, Wikstrom traces wood’s passage from forest to cross laminated walls through to the material’s discarded final return to earth’s soil, considering the enmeshed histories, economies, and philosophies; and ultimately outlining a path towards biodiverse mass timber cities. Designers today should feel empowered to more creatively imagine carbon not as a footprint but as a choreographed flow between forest, factory, site, and beyond.

Additional Information

Lindsey Wikstrom is the Founding Principal of Mattaforma and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Previously, she contributed to projects with The Living, Studio Gang, ArandaLasch, and Wendell Burnette Architects. She holds an M.Arch from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Charles McKim Prize, Visualization Award, and Avery 6 Award. Wikstrom is also the recipient of the SOM Prize. Her research on renewable and reclaimed materials has been published in Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture between Metrics and Narratives, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, Faktur, Cite, e-flux, Urban Omnibus, and others. Wikstrom is the organizer and moderator of Material Worlds, a speaker series hosted by MoMA’s Emilio Ambasz Institute. In 2022, Wikstrom joined Formafantasma at Prada’s Possible Conversation series to launch her book Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures (2023), published by Routledge, with foreword by Kenneth Frampton.

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