Living material. Wood
17/05/2013.
You’ll be amazed what wood can do. TASCHEN
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You’ll be amazed what wood can do. Now, Wood Architecture Now! Vol. 2, by Taschen.
Go Hasegawa, House in Komazawa, Tokyo, Japan. Photograph © Iwan Baan. TASCHEN.
Hiroyuki Shinozaki, T House, Tokyo, Japan. Photograph.- Hiroyasu Sakaguchi © A to Z. TASCHEN.
De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Bernheim Beuk House, Ghent, Belgium. Photograph © Filip Dujardin. TASCHEN.
Li Xiaodong, Li Yuan Library, Jiaojiehe Village, Huirou, Beijing, China. Photograph © Li Xiaodong Atelier. TASCHEN.
WMR, Surazo Hotel, Matanzas, Chile. Photograph © Sergio Pirrone. TASCHEN.
MU Architecture: Malbai V; Le Phare, Cap-à-l’Aigle, La Malbaie, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada, 2010; © Ulysse Lemerise B. TASCHEN.
Rodrigo Duque Motta, Elqui Domos Astronomical Hotel, Pisco Elqui, Chile. Photograph © Rodrigo Duque Motta Arquitectura. TASCHEN.
Interior pages. Wood Architecture Now! Vol. 2. TASCHEN.
WMR, Casa Ingrid, La Boca, Matanzas, Chile. Photograph © Sergio Pirrone. TASCHEN.
The ultimate renewable resource for architecture is thus the oldest, but also the most modern of materials. Thanks to computer-driven design and manufacturing techniques, wood can be cut and carved in the most astonishing new ways. Such innovative contributors to the work published in this volume as the German professor Achim Menges are showing the way to the creation of complex, almost living wood structures. Others like the young architects from WMR who are based in Santiago, Chile, show just how it is possible to build a dramatic two-story wood cabin overlooking the Pacific for just $ 30,000.
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The author.-
Philip Jodidio (born 1954) studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.
Cover.- Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.8 in., 416 pages
Language.- Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
