Description
Travel the world to investigate one of architecture's greatest renaissances: wood. How did this ancient, elemental material steal the show, from luxury spas to the most modern urban renewal plans? Based on 100 projects in China, Chile, and elsewhere, this study analyzes the technical, environmental, and sensory factors that have led new talents and established stars alike to turn to wood.
This book looks at how architects around the world are creating and innovating with this fundamental material. Through the follies, large-scale buildings and ambitious urban renewal schemes presented, it celebrates the diversity of how architects from different backgrounds are treating wood. It shows how wood can both transform urban spaces, as in the case of the Metropol Parasol in Seville designed by Jürgen Mayer H., and allow for sensitive interventions in natural environments, such as the Termas Geométricas Hot Springs Complex in Pucón, Chile, by Germán del Sol.
The author:
About the author Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard and was editor of Connaissance des Arts for over twenty years. At TASCHEN, he has authored the Architecture Now! series and monographs on Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid, and will soon publish one on Norman Foster.
Composition
Width : 25 cm
Height : 34 cm
Colors : White
Ref: 9 783836 584012
About Taschen
Committed to the planet, Taschen has achieved carbon-neutral status through its ecological partnership with Lélia Wanick Salgado, Sebastião Salgado and Instituto Terra.
Taschen is honoured to have contributed to the Institute's efforts for many years and to have published crucial photographic collections with the Salgados, including Exodus, Genesis and Amazônia, a celebration of the urgent issue of the rainforest, its indigenous cultures as well as its endangered beauties.
According to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Taschen produces 13,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. On the other hand, experts have estimated that the trees planted by Instituto Terra have so far absorbed some 108,000 metric tons of gas. Taschen's investment in the organisation therefore enables the publishing house to neutralise its own carbon footprint by purchasing "carbon credits" in the form of new Instituto Terra seedlings and supporting reforestation efforts. Each Taschen book plants a seed.
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