Modern wood architecture from Tierra del Fuego to North Cape
Wood is renewable and sustainable, solid and attractive.
Wood can be bent and shaped to the most modern of designs. It is the
material of the moment for contemporary architecture and this new volume
allows readers to get a glimpse of the most exciting and dynamic new uses of wood in architecture from all over the world.
Like earthen architecture, the use of wood is almost as ancient as
building itself. The columns of Greek temples are stylized trees.
Today's wooden buildings do all kinds of surprising things, and most of
all, they are as "green" as they come.
Featured architects and practices include:
70F, A1Architects, AldingerArchitekten, Atelier Masuda,
Auer+Weber+Assoziierte, Pieta-Linda Auttila, Shigeru Ban, Beals-Lyon
Arquitectos / Christian Beals, Bernardes + Jacobsen, BETON, Bohlin
Cywinski Jackson, Enrique Browne, Bernard Bhler, Marco Casagrande, Jos
Cruz Ovalle, dECOi Architects, dmvA, dRN Architects, Dumay + Fones +
Vergara, Piet Hein Eek, ETH-Studio Monte Rosa / Bearth & Deplazes,
Edouard Franois, General Design, Seppo Hkli, Yosuke Inoue, IROJE KHM
Architects, Jackson Clements Burrows, Emma Johansson and Timo Leivisk,
Kauffmann Theilig & Partner, Mathias Klotz, Marcio Kogan, Kirsi
Korhonen and Mika Penttinen, Nic Lehoux and Jacqueline Darjes, Niall
McLaughlin Architects, Andreas Meck, Beatriz Meyer, Ken Sungjin Min,
Murman Arkitekter, Rolf Carl Nimmrichter, Valerio Olgiati, Onix, PUSHAK,
Room 11, Hans-Jrg Ruch, SARC Architects, Rodrigo Sheward, Simas and
Grinspum, Studio Weave, Tezuka Architects, Turnbull Griffin Haesloop,
Wingrdhs