Wood is one of the most popular and desirable building materials on the contemporary scene, its special qualities serving as a reminder of our connection to the physical world in an era where virtual reality has crept into almost every facet of day-to-day life. Featured here are over thirty examples of the most expressive and inventive uses of wood in design and architecture from all over the world. An inviting fireplace perch set beneath shelves of natural maple that stretch to the ceiling; a striking geometric studio sits nestled, half-hidden amidst the swampy creeks and overgrown scrub oaks that grow along Florida's eastern seaboard. In over 360 spectacular photos, from Tadao Ando's Museum of Wood to Edward Cullinan's Westminster Lodge, each building is remarkably fresh and distinctly original. A gorgeous addition to the bookshelf of any architect, builder, or lover of beautiful design, Wood serves not only as a document of present ingenuity in the craft, but as a signpost pointing toward an entirely new direction in architecture.

Wood: New Directions in Design and Architecture

Arts & Photography

STUNGO, Naomi

Architecture

Chronicle Books+

A design monograph on Charles and Ray Eames, the golden couple of postwar American design. 
A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work. 
Charles and Ray Eames were the golden couple of postwar American design. True multimedia pioneers, they worked in furniture design, architecture, print, photography and filmmaking. They imbued the modern twentieth-century aesthetic with originality, colour and freshness, and their ability to mould plastics and plywood with an elegance not previously seen resulted in some of the most influential furniture design of the modern age – witnessed not just in the continuing popularity of their original designs but also in the mass prodcution of countless imitations.

Design Monograph: Eames

History & Criticism

OH! Life

Design Monograph: Gehry

Design Monograph: Wright

This celebration of their work includes 55 stuning color photographs of the work of one of the greatest contemporary architectural pratices.

Herzog And De Meuron

Carlton Books Ltd.

The New Wood Architecture

Following on the success of the hardback, this new paperback considers thirty recently completed timber-built schemes by progressive architectural practices. It looks at how the selected buildings have derived their special character from wood, in response to an assortment of intriguing briefs - including an Olympic hall, a textile museum, a painter's studio and a theatre. The author's argument - that wood is the building material of the future - is explored through five chapters, each defining a different aspect of the debate. 'A new style' brings together the work of a generation of forward-looking architects who have rejected the high-tech and deconstructivist aesthetics of their predecessors and are instead using wood to design to the paired down legacy of such mentors as Herzog & de Meuron. 'New technology' looks at how advances in technology have enhanced the ease with which timber can be used as a building material - and shows how architects have employed this to their advantage. 'Green thinking' recounts the ingenious ways in which well thought-out wooden buildings have used wood to blur the boundaries between inside and out - with some startlingly beautiful results. And finally, 'Reworking the vernacular' assesses the ways in which architects have used wood to re-work the traditional forms of buildings while remaining strongly rooted in a particular local culture.

Laurence King Publishing

A lavishly illustrated celebration of the life and work of the man who is undoubtedly the greatest American architect of the twentieth century--Frank Lloyd Wright.

Frank Lloyd Wright

carlton-books

Gehry has instilled his buildings with a technical virtuosity that seems to have no limits and, combined with his extraordinary imagination, his skill has resulted in some of the world's most remarkable buildings and structures.

Frank Gehry

Charles and Ray Eames (Design Monograph S.)

Individual Artists

The American designers Charles and Ray Eames changed the face of modern furniture design.

Charles & Ray Eames

Arthur, Judith Carmel

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