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Terms and conditions applyArchitecture in Wood: A World History
Will Pryce
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Format: Unknown
Pages: 320
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Date Published: Nov 2005
Stock Code: 55143
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Wood has unique qualities of form, colour and structure, yet is often undervalued or ignored in histories of architecture its enormous contribution remains largely hidden. However, leading designers around the world are increasingly drawn to it to satisfy social and environmental needs.
Will Pryce is an award-winning photographer who trained as an architect and photojournalist. His pictures have made him one of the most admired architectural photographers in Britain. Intensely dramatic but not over-dramatized, technically excellent, but not merely documentary, they convey a good approximation of the excitement of encountering these amazing structures first hand.
He has travelled the world seeking the famous and the obscure, caring not so long as it's made of wood. In the substantial text he shows how the wooden heritage of Japan grew from its Buddhist history; how Russias carpenters determined its iconic domes; how Norways stave churches contain clues to her pagan past; how Turkic tribes brought the yali from Asia; how the settlers of New England would use a provincial English tradition on the new continent; and how, today, sophisticated architects such as Peter Zumthor and Renzo Piano are inventing an eloquent new wooden architecture.
Will Pryce studied architecture at Cambridge University and The Royal College of Art, and photojournalism at The London College of Printing. This book is a companion tothe earlier 'Brick: A World History', written in conjunction with James W.P. Campbell. It is unclear whether he travelled the world separately for each book. This is a striking wander through a world of wood.
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