Humans have been building with wood for thousands of years—it’s an instinct as natural today as it was to our ancestors. We chop down trees to put up simple shelters and places of worship, tree houses, and alpine chalets. And yet, as spectacularly documented in Wood (Phaidon)—the third book in a series edited by British designer William Hall that explores the bounds of everyday construction materials, after Concrete and Brick—wood has been put to uses that are anything but common.
A living fiber, wood gives rise to forms that could feel soulless and cold if they were rendered in metal or stone. In 170 stunning images, Wood presents buildings of unexpected versatility and variety, from one of the oldest surviving stave churches in Norway, built in the 13th century, to modernist…
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ELLE DECOR (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2017