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"Contemporary architects have long overlooked the great versatility of wood as a building material. Now, however, they have begun to adopt wood as the natural solution to a variety of design problems, and as a result, this environmentally sustainable material is becoming increasingly significant in today's domestic architecture. Wood Houses, by noted architecture journalist Ruth Slavid, displays the entire breadth of this important architectural movement by covering forty-six recently built homes. The featured houses range from Fernau and Hartman Architects' Mann Residence in Sonoma County, a timber-frame house with a strikingly decentralized plan, to 24H Architecture's Arjang House in Varmland, Sweden, a reindeer fur-lined, cedar-shingled lakeside retreat. Each house's profile is illustrated with not only the architect's own plans and elevations but also numerous full-color interior and exterior photographs - 175 in total - that highlight the intrinsic beauty of wood."--Jacket.
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Retreats : Messenger House II, Upper Kingsbury, Nova Scotia / Brian MacKay-Lyons Architects ; Summer House, Jutland, Denmark / Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen ; Onominese Retreat, Michigan / Betsy Williams with Cornelius Alig ; Cabin at Elbow Coulee, Washington / Balance Associates ; Accordion House, Årjangs Commun, Värmland, Sweden / 24H> architecture ; Summer House, Åland, Finland / Saunders and Wilhelmsen ; Terrace House, Baldwin, Kansas / Dan Rockhill and Associates -- Simple houses : Maison Goulet, Quebec, Canada / Saia Barbarese Topouzanov ; Family House, Bärnau, Oberpfalz, Germany / Brückner & Brückner ; The Lodge, Whithurst Park, West Sussex, UK / James Gorst Architects ; Bunch Residence, Napa Valley, California / Turnbull Griffin Haesloop ; Casa del Sole di Mezzanotte, Tuscany, Italy / Roderick Romero -- Modern houses : Box House and Collopy House, New South Wales, Australia / Nicholas Murcutt ; Split House, Beijing, China / Atelier Feichang Jianzhu ; House in Savoy, Novalaise, France / Tectoniques ; House in Pedralbes, Barcelona, Spain / Tito Dalmau, BDM Arquitectos ; Mann Residence, Sonoma County, California / Fernau and Hartman Architects ; Riddell Residence, Wilson, Wyoming / Will Bruder Architects ; House in the Orchard, Corroy-le-Grand, Belgium / Damien Carnoy ; Villa B, Lake Starnberg, Germany / Fink + Jocher -- Prefabricated houses : Hangar House, Nantes, France / Sylvain Gasté, Michel Bazantay ; House in Fontainebleau, France / Sinikka Ropponen-Brunel, Atelier Brunel ; Milanville House, Milanville, Pennsylvania / Bone/Levine Architects ; Prefabricated housing, Merano, Italy / Holzbox Tirol and Anton Höss ; Garriga-Poch House, Lles de Cerdanya, Spain / Arturo Frediani Sarfatí ; Self-build house, Arusha, Tanzania / Jo Jordan and Nick Fisher ; Modular2, Kansas City, Kansas / Studio 804 -- Clustered houses : Garden City, Reims, France / BCDE Architecture ; Housing group, Porto San Paolo, Sardinia / Marco Petreschi ; House extension, Paris, France / Christian Pottgiesser with Florian Hertweck ; Cargo Fleet, London, UK / Chance de Silva ; Ebeling House, Dortmund, Germany / ArchiFactory.de ; Housing group, Trivières, Belgium / Groupe Gamma ; Template house, Beijing, China / Michele Saee ; Jackson Meadow, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota / Salmela Architect -- Glossary.
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