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This book weaves a much needed and transformational narrative about making architecture through paying close attention to cross-laminated timber as a material for today. The material becomes the site of experimentation, innovation…
SKU: 90945 ISBN: 978-1-954081-02-4 Binding: Hard Bound Pages: 240pp Publication Date: Fall 2021 Size: 8″ x 11″ Portrait World Rights: Available
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“Aesthetics of CLT with a connection to wood and art practice is a central thread though the book.”
978-1-954081-02-4
Hard Bound
240pp
Fall 2021
8" x 11" Portrait
Available
This book weaves a much needed and transformational narrative about making architecture through paying close attention to cross-laminated timber as a material for today. The material becomes the site of experimentation, innovation, and research in search of specific meanings of CLT in architecture at various scales by selecting the “CLT Blank” as the building unit. The structure of the book brings together work and texts from a diverse group of theorists and practitioners, who make material central to their inquiry, to suggest design approaches that will broaden the cultural, spatial, and technological significance for architecture, education, engineering, and industry.
The outcome focuses on materiality through fast slippages between art, architecture, and science, that we hope will invigorate and expand new discourse to act as an antidote to the current conversations about the material, that is fixated on its making and mass production, disappointingly portraying it as a bland and lifeless product—a notion we want to be distant from in preference to seeking areas we feel were not yet conceptualized or theorized . The potential to see the spatial properties of its use and what kind of world that might suggest is shown in the book, with selected striking visual materials, to reposition its architecture though new forms of representation and responses that continue to stay in touch with pragmatics. Aesthetics of CLT with a connection to wood and art practice is a central thread though the book.
Jennifer Bonner is director of MALL and associate professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of A Guide to the Dirty South—Atlanta and guest editor of a special issue of ART PAPERS on Los Angeles. Her design work, including Haus Gables, a single-family residence in Atlanta constructed of eighty-seven CLT panels, has been widely published and exhibited.
Hanif Kara is cofounder and design director of AKT II, a design-led structural and civil engineering firm based in London, and professor in practice of architectural technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Kara has gained international standing in the field of the built environment through practice, pioneering research, and education in interdisciplinary design.
Essays and contributions by:
Jennifer Bonner, MALL & Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard GSD
Hanif Kara, AKT II & Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology, Harvard GSD
Erika Naginski, Director of Doctoral Programs and Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Architectural History, Harvard GSD
Courtney Coffman, Manager of Lectures and Publications, Princeton University School of Architecture
Sean Canty, Studio SC & Assistant Professor of Architecture, Harvard GSD
Erin Putalik, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Architectural History at the University of Virginia School of Architecture
Sam Jacob, Sam Jacob Studio & Professor of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, Visiting Professor, Yale School of Architecture.
Nader Tehrani, NADAAA & Dean, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union
Yasmin Vbois, Ultramoderne & Assistant Professor of Architecture, Harvard GSD
Chris Lee, Serie Architects & Arthur Rotch Design Critic, Harvard GSD
Nelson Byun, -NESS Projects
Lauren Halsey, contemporary American artist based in Los Angeles, California.
Jennifer Bolande, interdisciplinary American artist based in Los Angeles, California.
Jayne Kelley, Visiting Assistant Professor, UIC
Student Contributors: Calvin Boyd, Benson Chien, Kyat Chin, Elif Erez, Daniel Garcia, Anna Goga, Ian Grohsgal, Edward Han Myo Oo, Anna Kaertner, Hiroshi Kaneko, Aryan Khalighy, Edgar Rodriguez, Alejandro Saldarriaga, Peeraya Suphasidh
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