Forest First
Timber Building
$95.94
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2026
Summary
This book puts the forest first and offers a detailed immersion into forest history, forest stand dynamics, forest ecology, forest-building carbon dynamics, and possible future forest trajectories as the pretext for thinking about timber building technics.
The specificity of regional forests suggests much about the prospect of non-extractive building design: building that tends and mends its terrestrial basis rather than takes, makes, and breaks it. How might we desig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781638402015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1638402019 |
| Author: | Kiel Moe |
| Publisher: | Actar Publishers |
| Imprint: | Actar Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 150mm x 214mm |
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Critics Review
“An important, valuable new title on timber building. Forest First expands on an emerging perspective in architecture and ecology: forest values before societal values; forest timelines rather than capitalist timelines; a forest’s definition of sustainable, rather than a murky human spin on sustainable.” –Peter Miller Books
“Of special and particular interest to timber utilizing architects and forest timber managers, “Forest First: Timber Building” by academician and architect Kiel Kenneth Moe must be considered as essential reading…. “Forest First: Timber Building” is comprised of individual chapters on the subjects of forest themed values, geology, northeast history, adaptations, carbon, and forest-building. Exceptionally ‘reader friendly’ in organization and presentation, “Forest First: Timber Building” is a unique and unreservedly recommended pick for personal, professional, community, and college/university library Forest Management & Architecture collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.” –Midwest Book Review
Kiel Moe
Kiel Kenneth Moe is a registered practicing American architect. Moe has taught architecture and energy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Syracuse University, Northeastern University, and Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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