Touch wood : material, architecture, future /
Wood is the building material of the future. In order to understand this renewable material and its potential, it is necessary to know about its cultural, historical, ecological and technological contexts. Touch Wood explores these complex relationships through inspiring essays and projects that are...
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Zurich :
Lars Müller Publishers,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Touched by wood / Philip Ursprung
- The good partner: designing with wood in the new climatic regime / Albena Yaneva
- From forest to timber
- Will there be sufficient forests to satisfy the future needs of the world? / Jürgen Blaser
- The forests and trees of central Europe
- The services and values of forests / Roland Olschewski
- CO₂ driver: forest fires
- Forest clearings
- A multitasker in climate change / Esther Thürig
- Forest hiding / Dan Handel
- From timber to architecture
- Wood and people: a cultural history / Joachim Radkau
- The anatomy of wood / Thomas Volkmer
- Technology, ecobalance--and romanticism / Christelle Ganne-Chédeville, Martin Geiser, Frédéric Pichelin, and Peter Staub
- Diversity as proviso / Ingo Burgert
- Beyond wood: a wide range of bio-based materials for a wide range of needs / Edwin Zea Escamilla, Verena Göswein
- Climate change, architecture, and timber construction
- Touched by fire / Stephen Pyne
- Timber construction in a new dimension / Charles Binck, Michael Klippel, and Andrea Frangi
- Connection technologies
- Making innovation: notes from the production hall / Edyta Augustynowicz and Thomas Wehrle
- Research changes architecture / Hannes Mayer and Yana Boeva
- Acoustic wall
- Competition and knowledge transfer / Wolfgang Schwarzmann
- Raw sawn timber: new workflows and expressions in wood architecture / Yves Weinand
- Simpler, more efficient, more productive / Katharina Lehmann
- The rise of timber construction in Switzerland / an interview the Hermann Blumer
- Free forms
- Timber engineers are designing the future / Pirmin Jung
- A high-rise building made of timber / Beat Weiss
- Wood: as sensuous as it is suggestive / Roland Züger
- The matter of building: educating architecture as a material practice / Philip Tidwell
- System replaces craft / Mario Rinke
- Historical wooden buildings of rural Switzerland / Stefan Kunz
- Architecture in timber
- Between tradition and innovation: on the cultural history of Swiss wooden house construction / Hubertus Adam
- Swiss timber architecture of the recent past : a selection
- Learning from "wood people" / Thomas Hildebrand
- Canada's new wood culture / Jim Taggart
- Virtually an instrument / Astrid Staufer, Andres Bosshard, and Matthias Ruf
- Pragmatism and beauty / Grafton Architects
- Two timber buildings / Herzog & de Meuron
- Architecture projects in timber
- Learning from Yusuhara / Kengo Kuma
- The grand shrines of Ise and Izumo: eternal renewal using ancient trees / Seng Kuan
- Japanese joints / Wataru Kumano
- The future
- 2050--a radical utopia / Markus Schaefer
- A plea for patchy architecture / Helene Romakin
- Anyone who wants to build with wood must call "nature" into question / Andreas Jud and Stefan Kurath
- Inspiration in wood.