Following the inauguration of the Vertical Forest in 2014 and the awards (CTBUH 2015 and The International High-rise Award 2014), Stefano Boeri has published\u00a0a book with Corraini Edizioni that compiles the intimate and hidden layer of inspiration and strategies behind the Vertical Forest: \u201ca house for trees and birds, inhabited also by humans, in the Milan sky\u201d<\/p>\n
The book features four sections: \u201cSeven inspirations\u201d from popular music to urban theories, from Celentano to Ebenezer Howard, the inspiration of a life between political demonstrations, art, and houses in the forest.\u00a0 \u201cTales from the vertical forest\u201d a series of fictional tales depicting this silent and homogeneous cohabitation present in the towers of the Vertical Forest. \u201cAn Illustrated dictionary of the Vertical Forest in 100 items\u201d a mix compendium of elements involved in the project and \u201cLearning From VF01\u201d a prospective manifesto that gathers the experience of the Vertical Forest as the first prototype of a non anthropocentric model of urbanisation: the Forest City.<\/p>\n
A Vertical Forest. Instructions booklet for the prototype of a forest city. By Stefano Boeri, edited by Guido Musante and Azzurra Muzzonigro; with the contribution of: Michele Brunello, Laura Gatti, Julia Gocalek, and Yibo\u00a0Xu, photograpy by: Paolo Rosselli, Laura Cionci, and The Blinkfish<\/p>\n