Neubau Forst Catalogue
Urban Tree Collection for the Modern Architect & Designer
Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2014
Work: Print, Publication

“Neubau Forst Catalogue” is the 432-pages print catalogue of a digital collection of tree silhouettes and sculptures seen at different seasons. Working by hand, the Neubau designers digitally removed the trees from their original Berlin surroundings and thereby crafted a body of visual material whose scope, outstanding quality of detail and excellent image resolution sets it clearly apart from conventional tree libraries compiled with autotracing tools.
Order directly via LMP Neubau Forst Catalogue & NBL Neubau Forst Archive, more info at neubauberlin.com.
Neubau Forst Catalogue, Lars Müller Publishers, 10/2014 (Teaser)


Generated & Designed by Neubau
Published by Lars Müller Publishers
240 × 280 × 50 mm, 9.5 × 11 × 1.98 in
432 pages, 765 full-color illustrations
(315 HD-bitmap tree masks, 327 HD-bitmap tree modules, 40 HD vector trees, 72 illus. of bark, 144 documentary illus.), paperback
ISBN 978-3-03778-435-8, English


The trees, which were systematically photographed in summer and winter over several years, assume a timeless validity through Neubau’s process of selection and are thus universally applicable for future visualizations. From the existing stand-alone tree objects, which can be placed against both dark and light backgrounds of all kinds, Neubau has furthermore derived individual “tree modules”.

These modules can be combined with the ready-to-use trees in an endless number of ways. Alongside detailed information about tree species, size, location, year of planting and file format, the catalogue contains also numerous impressive examples of how these images can be used.



The corresponding Neubau Forst Archive, consisting of 683 individual elements, is the digital library of which architects, designers, graphic designers and illustrators have previously only dreamed.

The Neubau Forst Team (2009—14)
Akane Sakai (JP), Bhav Mistry (UK), Benjamin Ganz (CH), Cezanne Noordhoek (NL), Christoph Grünberger (DE), Daniel Cottis (US), David Pope (IR), François Leherissier (FR), Joerg Petri (DE), Lukas Reinhard (DE), Marine Stephan (FR), Margarida Castel-Branco (PT), Marius Hanf (DE), Maximilian Voormann (DE), Miriam Busch (DE), Moritz Otten (DE), Oriol Salles (ES), Paul Heys (UK), Robert Loeber (UK), Stefan Gandl (AT), Thomas Holmes (UK), Will Smith (UK) & special thanks to Guido Fellhölter Bezirksamt Neukölln von Berlin.
Reference Image & Video: Neubau Berlin.