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Agata Toromanoff

Building With Wood

The New Timber Architecture

Agata Toromanoff

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English
Prestel
01 June 2023
Architectural structure & design
Learn how cutting-edge innovations using one of civilization's oldest construction materials are reshaping the built environment in sustainable and beautiful ways.

Natural, renewable, reusable, and aesthetically pleasing, wood is the consummate building material. Thanks to incredible advances in both application and sustainability, it is being used across the world to create new and surprising styles.

This exhilarating global survey features exquisite photography that captures a wide range of twenty-first century construction in residential, public, cultural, educational, commercial, and entertainment-related spaces. From the Mount Fuji World Heritage Center in Shizuoka, Japan and the Eystur Town Hall in the Faroe Islands to the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, each building is featured in double-page spreads with lush color photographs that allow readers to appreciate timber's intrinsic qualities against a variety of backgrounds, scales, and typologies. Plans and building specifications are accompanied by the latest developments in research and design.

Eco-friendly and robust, timber's applications are almost unlimited, extending to the tallest skyscrapers, and to every livable corner of our planet. This volume offers encouraging proof that architects around the world are responding to the climate crisis in ways that not only preserve the earth, but also provide pleasing environments in which to live, work, and play.

AUTHOR: Agata Toromanoff is an art historian and the author of several books on contemporary art, design, and architecture, including Brutalism Reinvented and Raising the Roof, both available from Prestel.

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Perfect for readers with an interest in cutting edge, sustainable architecture .

An in-depth look at a groundbreaking construction material: This book examines around 30 of the most impressive timber buildings worldwide, showcasing how this sustainable, versatile material has been used in constructions from skyscrapers to stadiums .

Gorgeously illustrated with 250 color images and 50 architectural plans .

Leasing art and design historian, Agata Toromanoff, guides the reader with fluent, informed prose .

Includes an exclusive interview with architect Kengo Kuma

250 colour illustrations
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Imprint:   Prestel
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 277mm,  Width: 213mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   1.219kg
ISBN:   9783791389240
ISBN 10:   3791389246
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Agata Toromanoff is an art historian and the author of several books on contemporary art, design, and architecture, including Brutalism Reinvented and Raising the Roof, both available from Prestel.

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