Wood Architecture Now! / Holz-Architectur heute! / L’architecture en bois d’aujourd’hui! Vol 2 (Taschen 2013) is Philip Jodido’s second volume to the popular Now! series on most recent wooden buildings by leading contemporary offices. Please also see the first volume in this series.
As soon as early humans bravely moved out of their protective caves, they surely built their first structures out of wood. The ultimate renewable resource for architecture is also our oldest, but also the most modern of materials. Thanks to the computer-driven design and manufacturing techniques, wood can be cut and carved in the most astonishing new ways. Such innovative contributors to the work published in this volume, such as the German professor Achim Menges, are showong the way to the creation of complex, almost living wood structures. Others like the young architects from WMR who are based in Santiago, Chile, show just how it is possible to build a dramatic two-storey wood cabin overlooking the Pacific for just $30.000. Or imagine how an innovative polyurethane-coated wood canopy can cover and renew a whole area of the historic city of Seville (Metropol Parasol by Jürgen Mayer H.).
Just as it can be simple and evocative, wood can be part of sophisticated structures like Snøhetta’s Norwegian Wild Reindeer Pavillon, with its CNC-milled timber wall. Economical, ecological, and fundamentally warm, wood architecture is as contemporary as it gets.
– Philip Jodido, Wood Architecture Now! / Holz-Architectur heute! / L’architecture en bois d’aujourd’hui! Vol 2 (Taschen, 2013), book description
The text is in English, German, and French. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The covers show only some minor traces of shelf wear and use.
