ARCHITECTURE NOW! WOOD

Modern wood architecture from Tierra del Fuego to North CapeWood is renewable and sustainable, solid and attractive. Wood can be bentand shaped to the most modern of designs. It is the material of the momentfor contemporary architecture and this new volume allows readers to get aglimpse of the most exciting and dynamic new uses of wood in architecturefrom all over the world. Like earthen architecture, the use of wood isalmost as ancient as building itself. The columns of Greek temples arestylized 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-LyonArquitectos / Christian Beals, Bernardes + Jacobsen, BETON, Bohlin CywinskiJackson, Enrique Browne, Bernard Buehler, Marco Casagrande, Josea CruzOvalle, dECOi Architects, dmvA, dRN Architects, Dumay + Fones + Vergara,Piet Hein Eek, ETH-Studio Monte Rosa / Bearth & Deplazes, Edouard Francois,General Design, Seppo Haekli, Yosuke Inoue, IROJE KHM Architects, JacksonClements Burrows, Emma Johansson and Timo Leiviskae, Kauffmann Theilig &Partner, Mathias Klotz, Marcio Kogan, Kirsi Korhonen and Mika Penttinen,Nic Lehoux and Jacqueline Darjes, Niall McLaughlin Architects, AndreasMeck, Beatriz Meyer, Ken Sungjin Min, Murman Arkitekter, Rolf CarlNimmrichter, Valerio Olgiati, Onix, PUSHAK, Room 11, Hans-Joerg Ruch, SARCArchitects, Rodrigo Sheward, Simas and Grinspum, Studio Weave, TezukaArchitects, Turnbull Griffin Haesloop, Winglrdhs