Wood

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Hardback
224 Pages
174 illustrations

Description

Wood is a fresh, insightful and surprising have a look at the world’s best timber architecture.

With 170 structures from the last 1,000 years, Wood features projects from one of the crucial world’s most celebrated architects. Renzo Piano’s otherworldly New Caledonian Cultural Centre is found alongside projects from Tadao Ando and Peter Zumthor. Even the work of Le Corbusier, an architect best known for his work in concrete, is shown – his humble Mediterranean log cabin, Le Cabanon, used to be his last home.

Arranged to promote comparison and discussion, the selected projects take the reader on a global tour of inspiring and intriguing structures: a Vietnamese village hall sits beside a state of the art Belgian laboratory, an Italian anatomical theatre alongside a luxurious Canadian sauna and an onion-domed Russian church next to a fortified Japanese castle.

Illustrated with bizarre photographs, every project includes an extended caption providing an insightful observation at the building.

An essay by the bestselling Writer and naturalist Richard Mabey explores the close relationship between trees and architecture.

Following the popularity of Concrete and Brick, Wood is a gorgeous and informative visual exploration of a natural material that harbours an bizarre range of expression and potential and has inspired architects for generations.

Hardback
224 Pages
174 illustrations
Writer: Richard Mabey


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