| Description |
217 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Form -- Texture -- Juxtaposition -- Landscape -- Light -- Mass -- Presence -- Scale |
| Summary |
With 170 structures from the last 1,000 years, Wood features projects from some of the world's most celebrated architects. Renzo Piano's otherworldly New Caledonian Cultural Centre is found alongside projects from Tadao Ando and Peter Zumthor. Even the work of Le Corbusier, an architect best known for his work in concrete, is shown - his humble Mediterranean log cabin, Le Cabanon, was his last home. Arranged to promote comparison and discussion, the selected projects take the reader on a global tour of inspiring and intriguing structures: a Vietnamese village hall sits beside a state-of-the-art Belgian laboratory, an Italian anatomical theatre alongside a luxurious Canadian sauna and an onion-domed Russian church next to a fortified Japanese castle |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Building, Wooden -- Pictorial works.
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Wood in interior decoration -- Pictorial works.
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| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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| Author |
Hall, William, 1975- editor
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Mabey, Richard, 1941- writer of supplementary textual content
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| ISBN |
9780714873480 |
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