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Paper, Pulp, Plywood: Architecture and the Built Orders of Resource Extraction in Canada (CCSA Topics: Schriftenreihe des Center for Critical Studies in Architecture) - Couverture souple

Koehler, Maren

 
9783944425504: Paper, Pulp, Plywood: Architecture and the Built Orders of Resource Extraction in Canada (CCSA Topics: Schriftenreihe des Center for Critical Studies in Architecture)

Synopsis

“Paper, Pulp, Plywood” draws a diagram. A company town built around a giant paper mill, a pavilion that resembles a forest, another made from wastepaper, an exposed-concrete headquarters tower of a forestry company, the post-war print media advertising plywood and particleboard, and the protest in a Native old growth forest are among the primary coordinates of this diagram. “Paper, Pulp, Plywood” examines these sites and associated tensions in the production and consumption of abstract matter derived from trees. Through seven interlinked episodes, the book argues that architectural culture in post-war Canada was tightly bound to the political economy of the forestry industry and its techniques of resource extraction. Tracing the forestry industry’s historical ties to the colonial expansion of empire, the book reveals how the processing of trees into standardized materials conforming to architects’ specifications and industrial norms significantly reshaped the built environment as well as the ecology and the social and cultural life of the forest.

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