<p>“Either you’re growing your materials or not. You’re getting them from a forest or a mine.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/2442-lindsey-wikstrom" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Lindsey Wikstrom</a> is the Founding Principal of <a href="https://mattaforma.com/">Mattaforma</a> and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at <a href="https://www.arch.columbia.edu/">Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation</a>. Her debut book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Forest-other-Timber-Futures/dp/1032023945">Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures</a>, argues that to overcome obstacles to wide adoption of mass timber as a building material, we need to think differently about our relationship to trees, buildings, and each other.</p> <p> </p> <p>Intro/Outro: “I Am a Tree,” by Guided by Voices</p>