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Wood Works
Sustainability, Versatility, Stability
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Ideal for readers interested in architecture, design, and sustainable building materials.
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See moreExciting and surprising approaches of how timber is being used in architecture and interior design today.
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Whether strict and orthogonal or undulating and curved, whether rough and natural or polished and elegant...
Wood is nature's greatest resource, embedded in the history, culture, and life of humans worldwide. It is ingenious as a building material: remarkably malleable and at the same time resilient, recyclable in many ways, and reducing greenhouse gases. It is universally applicable, locally available, renewable, and beautiful.
Today, new processing technologies extend the spectrum of its possible applications and its combinability with other building materials, enabling new technical and design solutions. In short, almost anythingβstructurallyβcan be done with it. Whatever architects and interior designers think of can be realised with wood: from energy-efficient houses via multi-story academic facilities to the interiors of fashionable bars. This traditional building material has become ultra-contemporary and increasingly cutting-edge, offering exciting possibilities for architectural design.
Wood Works by Chris van Uffelen showcases how wood continues to be an innovative and versatile material in the world of architecture and design.
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ISBN: 9783037682500
Publisher: Braun Publishing AG
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 October 2019
Country: Switzerland
Imprint: Braun Publishing AG
Illustration: 450 Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 240.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 1330g
Pages: 224
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Core topic for Chris van Uffelen is the transfer of knowledge about design in all its manifestations. For more than twenty years the Dutch-German art historian has been publishing books as well as countless essays and articels on art, architecture, interior design and urban planning from antiquity to the present. He is particular interested in the effects of architecture on public spaces. In his editorial office he provides a wide range of services for the publishing industry. He also runs his own small publishing house.
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