Author/Editor(s): Will Pryce
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli; First Edition edition (November 8, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0847827461
ISBN-13: 978-0847827466
Size: 108 MB
Format: PDF
Book Description
From the very beginning of architecture-long before the invention of masonry-buildings were constructed of wood. With its unique qualities of form, color, and structure, wood is the most reliable building material at the core of architecture. This epic history is the first comprehensive survey of the use of wood in architecture throughout the ages.The book is organized both chronologically and geographically. It surveys works from the oldest heritage of wooden buildings (Kyoto's Buddhist temples and Scandinavia's pagan-inspired stave churches) to the latest cutting-edge designs, proving that wood is on the rise as the preferred material in these ecologically conscious times.No region of the world with a native tradition of building with wood is left out. In North America, the book demonstrates the European origins of New England's clapboards and saltboxes, and later shows how such sophisticated California architects as Greene & Greene or Bernard Maybeck could blend age-old traditions of the Far East and Switzerland with a Pacific Coast sense of novelty and whimsy. Spectacular and diverse photographs highlight the architectural masterpieces of wooden architecture throughout the world, illustrating that wood is a building material with a deep history as well as a vibrant future.
About The Author
Will Pryce is an award-winning photographer who trained as an architect at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Art, London. His most recent book, in collaboration with James Campbell, is the hugely acclaimed Brick: A World History.
Reviews
Rizolli mastered the architecture coffee-table tome years ago: large, cleanly-designed, beautifully-photographed books are undeniably seductive on the bookstore shelf, and look great in the living room, but rarely inspire any lasting interest or contribute meaningfully to our understanding of human settlement. I am happy to recommend Will Pryce's book not because it hues to the Rizolli model, but because it's actually a good read, too. And the merging of great pictures with informative text proves to be far more potent than either alone. The book has no thesis per se, but it does a laudable job of presenting the stunning variety of world building in wood. The pictures show one startling regional type after another, and the text stitches the diverse whole into something coherent, fascinating, and illuminating. Architecture picture books have always been tainted by insipid, often illiterate prose. Mr Pryce has shown a scholarly, readable, informative alternative. - Amazon Customer Review
This is the perfect coffee-table book on wooden architecture. The color photography is excellent. It does not pretend to be thorough, but does provide an excellent sampling of wooden architecture across time and across geography. The text is helpful, but not scholarly. In addition to many familiar wood structures there were a large number of wonderful buildings with which I was unfamilar. If you are looking for a glorious set of color photographs of wooden architecture, this is the book for you. - Amazon Customer Review
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