Considering Dry Rot: The Co-evolution of Buildings and Serpula lacrymans

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1 Ingeborg Bjorvand Engh, “Evolution of the Dry Rot Fungus Serpula lacrymans and Its Allies,” Master's thesis, Thesis/Dissertation ETD, 2010, 8; Håvard Kauserud, Henning Knudsen, Nils Högberg, and Inger Skrede, “Evolutionary Origin, Worldwide Dispersal, and Population Genetics of the Dry Rot Fungus Serpula lacrymans,” Fungal Biology Reviews 26, no. 2–3 (2012): 84, doi:10.1016/j.fbr.2012.08.001.; and Håvard Kauserud, Ingeborg Bjorvand Svegården, Glenn-Peter Sætre, Henning Knudsen, Øyvind Stensrud, Olaf Schmidt, Shuichi Doi, Tomoaki Sugiyama, and Nils Högberg, “Asian Origin and Rapid Global Spread of the Destructive Dry Rot Fungus Serpula lacrymans,” Molecular Ecology 16, no. 16 (2007): 3350, doi:10.1111/j.1365-294×.2007.03387.x.

2 John N. Thompson, Interaction and Coevolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), 3.

3 "Evolution is adapting to meet one's needs. Coevolution, the larger view, is adapting to meet each other's needs." Stewart Brand, “Introduction,” CoEvolution Quarterly. Kevin Kelly discusses the ideas about coevolution proposed by Brand. Kelly, Kevin, “Chapter 5 Coevolution,” Out of Control the New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. New York: Basic Books, 2003, 67-78.

4 Ibid.; Kauserud et al., “Evolutionary Origin” (note 1), 86.

5 Olaf Schmidt, “Indoor Wood-Decay Basidiomycetes: Damage, Causal Fungi, Physiology, Identification and Characterization, Prevention and Control,” Mycological Progress 6, no. 4 (2007): 264, doi:10.1007/s11557-007-0534-0.

6 Ibid.; Kauserud et al., “Evolutionary Origin” (note 1), 88.

7 Ibid.; Kauserud et al., “Asian Origin” (note 1), 3351, 3357; Schmidt, “Indoor Wood-Decay Basidiomycetes” (note 5), 275.

8 Kauserud et al., “Asian Origin” (note 1), 3350, 3359.

9 Vitruvius Pollio and M.H. Morgan, “Book II Chapter VIII Methods of Building Walls,” in The Ten Books on Architecture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), 57-58.

10 2015 IBC: International Building Code (Country Club Hills, IL: ICC, International Code Council, 2015).

11 Ibid.; Vitruvius Pollio and Morgan, “Book II Chapter X Highland and Lowland Fir,” 64.

12 Ibid., 91; Schmidt, “Indoor Wood-Decay Basidiomycetes” (note 5), 268.

13 Jørgen H. Jensenius, “Wooden Churches in Viking and Medieval Norway: Two Geometric and Static Strategies,” in Historic Wooden Architecture in Europe and Russia: Evidence, Study, and Restoration, ed. Evgeny Khodakovsky and Siri Skjold Lexau (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2015), 21, http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4338409.

14 David Harry Jennings and A. F. Bravery, Serpula lacrymans: Fundamental Biology and Control Strategies (Chichester: Wiley, 1991), 201.

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Jana VanderGoot

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Jana VanderGoot is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She holds a MLA from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a MArch from the University of Virginia, and a BArch from the University of Notre Dame. Jana is a registered architect, founding partner of VanderGoot Ezban Studio, and 2011 recipient of the Rieger Graham Prize, ICAA affiliated fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. She is author of the upcoming book Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic: A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism, to be published by Routledge in 2017.