Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures

Index
All Weather Garden
Bar Cicchetti
Black Swan
Blue Grass House
CC Housing
Dear Future
Designing The Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
Edgewater Flat
Engine Factory
Glenn Rock
Hohokam Circle
Immersive Housing Catalog
Material Worlds
Megaflora Housing
Natural Number Houses
Neurodivergent Classrooms
Nine Reciprocities
Parkview Mountain House
Pleat Project
Primose Community
Public Records, The Nursery
Rancho Almasomos
Rugby Duplex
Springy Banks
Three Material Stories
WBYA Exhibition
institutional
commercial, interior, mass timber
commercial
residential, single-family, interior, mass timber
competition, residential, multi-family, mass timber
exhibition, graphic design
research, publication
residential, interior
industrial, mass timber
residential
residential, interior, ADU, adaptive reuse, single-family
research, publication, residential
curatorial
competition, residential, multi-family, mass timber
residential, research, mass timber
educational, interior
research, publication, residential, multi-family
hospitality, residential, interior
commercial
planning, mixed-use, adaptive reuse, multi-family
commercial, mass timber
commercial, mixed-use, mass timber, planning, hospitality
residential, interior
residential, ADU, adaptive reuse
research, publication
exhibition
Published by Routledge, 2023
Size: 40,000 words, 100 drawings
Role: Author & Illustrator
Press:
Architectural Record
Architect’s Newspaper
In a world urgently needing renewable materials, Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures examines mass timber’s potential to replace concrete and steel while supporting planetary survival. The book follows wood’s journey—from stewarded seed in the forest soil to laminated wall panels, to eventual disassembly—pausing at each stage to assess the ecological, economic, and cultural forces shaping it.
Author Lindsey Wikstrom interrogates entrenched extractive systems, explores the realities of biodiversity and carbon storage, and dismantles common myths about fire safety, structural strength, and sequestration. By revealing the complex interplay between forest health, manufacturing processes, and building design, Wikstrom proposes a species-based methodology in which designers act as choreographers of carbon. This framework reimagines architecture’s role in balancing human needs with ecosystem resilience, offering a compelling roadmap for a truly timber-based future.
Foreword: Kenneth Frampton
Copyediting: Madeleine Campagnon
Graphic Design: Studio Elana Schlenker
Publisher: Routledge, 2023