£28.00
Add to basket| Price in Euros | €34.83 |
| Price in USD | $44.20 |
| Select your currency | |
| Calculated price | |
FREE UK Postage for online orders over £60
Terms and conditions applyA+U 431: Wooden Architecture
Kenji Yoshida
Product details
Format: Book
Pages: 134
Publisher: Japan Architect Co. Ltd
Date Published: Aug 2006
Stock Code: 59019
Binding: Paperback
Extras
Rating
Total votes: 0
Description
The earliest known wooden artefacts are about 14,000 years old. 8,000 year old cave paintings show wood as one of the original building materials used by humankind. The history of building with wood is so long that its properties and effects on the environment are thoroughly known, in contrast to modern synthetic materials. Wood is simultaneously an age-old material and a hope for the future.
This issue of A+U presents case studies of 15 wooden buildings from varied locations, showing how the versatile material can be adapted for extreme cold (Svalbard Science Centre), demonstrating stark poise and elegance (three Finnish churches), and generally showing a slew of attractive and fascinating projects (a 'resonating body' music rehearsal space in Austria; the 'Wave for Bern' bridge). As ever, the text, images and plans are of crisp quality. A fine magazine.
Related Items
Timber Designers' Manual
This major structural engineering manual covers both overall and detail design of structural timber, including aspects such as shear deflection...
£57.50
Add to basket
Architecture in Wood: A World History
Wood has unique qualities of form, colour and structure, yet is often undervalued or ignored in histories of architecture its enormous...
£39.95
Add to basket
Post a Review
You need to be logged in to post a review
Customers Who Bought This Also Bought
Architecture 09: RIBA Buildings of the Year
Architecture 09 is the official guide to the work of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and all RIBA Awards presented in 2009. The... (more)
£19.95
Add to basket
A+U 431: Wooden Architecture & Architecture 09: RIBA Buildings of the Year
Buy these items together.
£47.95
Add to basket
