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  • 21 Reasons Why Wood is Better, Alex de Rijke
  • 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, Roman Mars – 2020
  • Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand, Malcolm McCullough // 1998
  • Addressing Barriers for Bamboo, Kyle Schumann, Jonas Hauptman, Katie MacDonald
  • Cyclettes, Tree Abraham // 2022
  • Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation, Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver // 2013
  • Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization, Roland Ennos – 2020
  • Alphabet and the Algorithm, Mario Carpo – 2011
  • American Framing: the Same Something for Everyone, Edited by Paul Andersen, Jayne Kelley, Paul Preissner // Park Books 2023
  • An Extra Dimension: The Burton House, Modern Architecture in the Making, Richard Burton // 2015
  • Anatomy and Grain Pattern in Forks of Hazel and Other Species, Duncan Slater, Robert S. Bradley, Philip J. Withers & A. Roland Ennos – 2014
  • Architecture of Trees, Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi – 2019
  • Architecture Without Architects, Bernard Rudofsky // 1987
  • Art and Craft of the Machine, Frank Lloyd Wright – 1901
  • Bandsawn Bands: Feature-Based Design and Fabrication of Nested Freeform Surfaces in Wood, Ryan Luke Johns and Nicholas Foley. Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design. 2014
  • Beauty of Everyday Things, Soetsu Yanagi
  • BLDGBLOG, Geoff Manaugh // 2004–ongoing
  • Building in Wood: Construction and Details, Götz Gutdeutsch – Princeton Architectural Press, 1996
  • Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink, Galina Churkina et al – 2020
  • By Way of Resistance, Lebbeus Woods – 2009
  • Calder: From Engineering to Lyrical Invention, W. Bernard Carlson
  • Cambio, Formafantasmaa. Serpentine Galleries/Koenig Books – 2020
  • Crafting a Word. What Does Craft Mean?, Lucas Wilson – 2017
  • Craftsman, Richard Sennett – London 2008
  • Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs – 1961
  • Design for the Real World, Vitor Papanek
  • Design of Mass Timber Panels as Heat-Exchangers (Dynamic Insulation), Craig et al…
  • Design in Nature: Learning from Trees, Claus Mattheck – 1998
  • Design through Making (AD), Bob Sheil (Ed) – Wiley 2005
  • Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures. Lindsey Wikstrom – 2023
  • Digital Fabrication of Standardless Materials, Katie MacDonald, Kyle Schumann, Jonas Hauptman – Acadia 2019
  • Dinosaur Paleo – excellend photogrammetry writing
  • Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth – 2017
  • Drawing the Line, Daniel A. Barber in Places Journal
  • Embodied Information in Structural Timber, Emanuel Jannasch –
  • Empire, State & Building, Kiel Moe – Actar Publishers, 2017
  • Encyclopedie Methodique de la Marine – 1798
  • Experiencing Architecture, Steen Eiler Rasmussen – MIT Press 1964
  • Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life, George Monbiot – 2014
  • Finding Form: Towards an Architecture of the Minimal, Frei Otto – 1996
  • Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard – 2021
  • First Collection of Ideas for the Use of Wet Timber, Frei Otto // 1986
  • Genius at Work: Images of Alexander Graham Bell, Dorothy Harley Eber – 1982
  • Ghost: Building and Architectural Vision, Brian MacKay-Lyons – Princeton, 2008
  • Harvard Design Magazine: Into the Woods. Issue No. 45, 2018
  • Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Peter Wohlleben – 2016
  • Historical Atlas of Toronto, Derek Hayes – Douglas & McIntyre, 2009
  • How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built, Stewart Brand – Penguin 1995
  • Iatrogenic Architecture: Unreliable Narratives of Sustainability, Kiel Moe – 2015
  • Insulating Modernism: Isolated and Non-isolated Thermodynamics in Architecture, Kiel Moe – 2014
  • Integrative strategies across the digital timber value chain, T. Svilans, M. Tamke, M.R. Thomsen. In: Structures and Architecture A Viable Urban Perspective? – 2022
  • International Book of Wood, Hugh Johnson
  • LowTech Magazine
  • Makepeace: A Spirit of Adventure in Craft + Design, Jeremy Myerson – Cross River Press, 1995
  • Manifest Destiny – Jason Griffiths. AA Publications, 2012
  • Material Reform, Building for a Post Carbon Future. Material Cultures – 2022
  • Mechanized Forestry, World War II to the Present, C.R. Silversides. The Forestry Chronicle – 1984
  • Modern Architecture: A Planetary Warming History. Hans Ibelings – 2023
  • National Geographic: Saving Forests, May 2022
  • Native Trees of Canada, Forestry Branch Canada – multiple editions
  • Nature and Art of Workmanship, David Pye – 2008
  • New Approaches to Timber in Architecture, Building Engineering Workshops in association with Buro Happold
  • Nominal vs Actual, Oliver Curtis in Harvard Design Magazine Issue No.45 – 2018
  • Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Christopher Alexander – Harvard University Press, 1964
  • On Exactitude (or Rigour) in Science, Jorge Luis Borges – 1946. Many translations.
  • On Naval Timber and Arboriculture, Patrick Matthew – 1831
  • On the Forces that Shape Trees, or How to Steal Order from the Molecular Storm, Salmaan Craig
  • Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Buckminster Fuller – 1969
  • Patterns 8, Buro Happold
  • Processing Branches, Chrisoph Schindler, Martin Tamke, Ali Tabatabai, Martin Bereuter, Hirnori Yoshida. –– XXX
  • Prodigious Builders, Bernard Rudofsky. 1977
  • Rethinking Wood: Future Dimensions of Timber Assembly – 2019
  • Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency, Andrea Oppenheimer – Princeton Architectural Press.
  • Savage Mind, Claude Lévi Strauss. University of Chicago Press (This book has been republished/translated as ‘Wild Thought’)
  • Serial Branches: Strategies to activate the performative capacity of naturally grown wooden form with contemporary information technology, Schindler, C., Tamke, M., Tabatabai, A., Bereuter, M. – 2013
  • Seven Reasons Not to Build in Wood, Alex de Rijke.
  • Shelter (first and second editions), Lloyd Kahn and Bob Easton. Shelter Publications, 1973
  • Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered. E. F. Schumacher, 1973
  • Structural Timber Design to Eurocode 5, Abdi Kermani – Wiley, 2013
  • Sustainable Timber Design: Construction for 21st Century Architecture, Michael Dickson – Routledge 2014
  • Sylva; Or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions, John Evelyn – 1664
  • There’s More to Timber Building than Trees, Kiel Moe // 2021
  • Think Like the Forest: Maximizing the Environmental Impact and Energetics of Building Timber, Kiel Moe in Rethinking Wood // 2018
  • Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village. Robert Mellin // 2008
  • Timber Construction Manual, Natterer Herzog et al – Birkhauser
  • Timber Designers Manual, Ozelton and Baird – Wiley 2006.
  • Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander
  • Trait-based approach to both forestry and timber building can synchronize forest harvest and resilience
  • Tree Fork Truss: An Architecture of Inherent Forms, Zachary Mollica. D+M Thesis 2016
  • Tree Fork Truss: Geometric Strategies for Exploiting Inherent Material Form, Zachary Mollica and Martin Self. Proceedings of Advances in Architectural Geometry 2016
  • Tree Story, Valerie Trouet
  • Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace Wells.
  • Walden, Henry David Thoreau – 1854
  • What We Owe Our Trees. New Yorker // 2023
  • Who Builds Your Architecture? (WYBA) A Critical Field Guide, Kadambari Baxi, Jordan H. Carver, Laura Diamond Dixit, Lindsey Wikstrom Lee, and Mabel O. Wilson with Tiffany Rattray and Beth Stryker. Columbia GSAPP
  • Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees, Roger Deakin – 2008
  • Wood from Trees: The Use of Timber in Construction, Michael H. Ramage et al // 2017
  • Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial, Daniel Ibanez, Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe // 2019
  • Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers // 1997

  • You Belong to the The Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future. Jonathan Keats

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