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A detailed and timely look at the resourceful ways wood is being used in some of the world's most innovative new buildings.



Despite its legacy as a traditional building material, timber is experiencing a renaissance as contemporary architects and designers increasingly come to appreciate its sustainability, versatility, and beauty. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs and drawings, New Wood Architecture features over 40 contemporary projects from around the world by leading architects including Shigeru Ban, Roberto Briccola, Santiago Calatrava, Steven Holl, Herzog + Partner, Herzog and de Meuron, Peter Hübner, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and Peter Zumthor.



Ruth Slavid examines the innovative ways timber is currently being handled and how its use has been expanded by new technologies and experiments with traditional building methods. Featured topics include wood's natural properties in rural landscapes; its heritage as a vernacular building material; its pragmatic and cost-efficient properties; its versatility; current technological innovations such as the uses of engineered products, laminates, plywoods, and chipboards; the ways wood can be combined with other materials to enhance its structural properties; and its use as a recycled or "green" material in some of the most beautiful and experimental plans being constructed today.

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Library Journal Review

"Exhilarating and dynamic" best describes this lavishly illustrated volume highlighting the revival of creating and building with wood. In her introduction, Slavid (special projects editor, the Architect's Journal) presents an excellent global overview of timber processes and the lumber industry, discussing historical and contemporary uses of wood. The book's seven chapters showcase 42 international projects, exploring topics such as closeness to nature, modern vernacular, inspired pragmatism, sense of place, inside story, pushing technology, and changing views. These visually dazzling and spectacularly photographed projects include living, commercial, cultural, governmental, and public spaces. What results is a dramatic and inspiring book that should be useful to public and academic libraries, as well as collections focusing on architectural design. Enthusiastically recommended.-Stephen Allan Patrick, East Tennessee State Univ. Libs., Johnson City (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Slavid, special projects editor of The Architect's Journal, showcases 41 recent buildings from five continents by famous and little known architects, illustrating dramatic, innovative uses of wood, most of them exploiting new technologies. These uses are divided into seven categories, ranging from purely formal invention to extreme exploitation of technology, and run the gamut from a cavernous concert hall to a minimal Alpine vacation shelter. More than 300 captivating color photographs and additional drawings showing sections, details, and (as usual, too few) plans join with pithy and informative descriptions of each section and each building. A brief introduction argues for wood's place in ecologically responsible architecture and describes the many new technologies available for a material that provides a warm antidote to much of modernism's chill. Modernism is the star; recent traditional architecture using wood is ignored. This attractive, moderately priced book has sturdy binding and heavy paper stock, and gives complete project credits. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through professionals. C. W. Westfall University of Notre Dame

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Ruth Slavid is special projects editor for The Architect's Journal.