100 Contemporary Wood Buildings | Compact Edition
Wood is having a great renaissance in global architecture. How has this elemental material become so popular, from luxury hot spring buildings to modern urban renewal plans?
With 100 projects from Chile to China, this global survey explores the technical, environmental, and sensory elements that have inspired a return to timber.
This book explores how architects around the world have created and invented with this elementary material. Featuring follies, very large buildings, and ambitious urban renewal schemes, it celebrates the diverse deployment of wood by architects around the world. We see how wood can at once transform urban spaces, as in the Metropol Parasol in Seville by Jürgen Mayer H., and allow for sensitive interventions in natural environments, such as at the Termas Geométricas Hot Springs Complex in Pucón, Chile, by Germán del Sol.
True to all TASCHEN architecture titles, the book pays tribute to many emerging international talents as well as to such renowned figures as Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano. It celebrates each architect’s vision and innovation, as well as investigating the techniques, trends, and principles that have informed their work with wood. It examines the computer-guided milling that has allowed for novel new forms, the responsible harvesting that allows wood to align with our environmental concerns, and, above all, wood’s enduring appeal to our senses and psyche, comforting hectic modern lives with a sense of Arcadian simplicity.
Specifications:
By Philip Jodidio
ISBN: 978-3836561563
Published: 2017 by Taschen
Pages: 624, Hardcover
Dimensions: 7.72 x 5.43 x 1.81
Weight: 2.13 lb
About the Author:
Philip Jodidio, born in New Jersey in 1954 graduated from Harvard where he studied the history of art and economics. He was the Editor in Chief of the widest circulation French art magazine Connaissance des Arts from 1980 to 2002. He is the author of more than 150 books, mainly about contemporary architecture. He has published monographs on Richard Meier, Norman Foster, Santiago Calatrava, Alvaro Siza, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, and more. He has also worked with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture on books concerning the heritage of the Muslim world.
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