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Book of Trees - Visualizing Branches of Knowledge

By Manuel Lima

Book information

Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Year
2014
ISBN
1616892188
Google Books ID
e0gBngEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18218439 bytes)
Pages
208\208
Topic
Art Photo
Time added
2017-02-16 22:35:33

Description

Trees are one of the most ubiquitous religious symbols across the world. From ancient Sumer to Christianity, from the Maya civilization to Buddhism, there’s hardly a human society over the ages that hasn’t associated trees with some sort of celestial and religious power. Due to its expressive quality and natural branching scheme, trees have also become important communication tools, illustrating a variety of topics such as family ties, moral values, systems of law, domains of science, biological species, hard disk drives, database schemas, and online discussions. The Book of Trees covers over 800 years of human culture through the lens of the tree figure, from its entrenched roots in religious medieval exegesis to its contemporary, secular digital themes. With roughly 200 images the book offers a visual evolutionary history of this universal metaphor, showing us the incremental adoption of a stylized, abstract construct, as well as a recent emergence of new visual models, many employing advanced computer-generated algorithms. Ultimately, this book makes visualization a prism through which to observe the evolution of civilization.

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