Blank : speculations on CLT /

This book advances a much-needed and transformational agenda for making architecture today through a close reading of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and its material unit, the CLT blank. Both matter-of-fact and multivalent, economical and excessive, the blank has untapped potential for experimentation...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Blank (Novato, Calif.)
Other Authors: Bonner, Jennifer (Editor), Kara, Hanif (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Novato, California] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions, [2021].
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Blank Towers. Prologue: Built-in sprezzatura / Erika Naginski
  • After timber trends, or speculations on the cross-laminated timber blank / Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara
  • Blank Houses. Endless lamellae and finer grains: A brief history of better wood / Erin Putalik
  • Essential planes / Christopher C. M. Lee
  • On blankness : / Courtney Coffman
  • Blank panels. Blank shots: Monolithic desires and laminar inevitabilities / Nader Tehrani
  • Ten points on CLT models and public performance / Yasmin Vobis
  • Wood grain models. Constructing the supergraphic: A drawing of a wall as much as a wall / Sam Jacob
  • Cut-out / Nelson Byun
  • Lauren Halsey
  • Surface tensions / Victoria Camblin
  • Jennifer Bolande
  • Exploded blanks. Switcheroo, blanks everywhere / Jennifer Bonner
  • Blank characters: Elisions in artistic practice and domestic spaces / Sean Canty
  • Pervasive structural analysis. Dialogues of material / Hanif Kara
  • CLT forecasts.