| Architecture in Wood: A World History Contributor(s): Pryce, Will (Author) |
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ISBN: 0500343187 ISBN-13: 9780500343180 Publisher: Thames & Hudson OUR PRICE: $34.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial - Architecture | Methods & Materials - Architecture | History - General |
| Dewey: 721.044 |
| LCCN: 2015951003 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 9.1" W x 11.7" (3.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Many of the world's greatest buildings are made of wood, yet it is undervalued or ignored in histories of architecture. However, leading designers around the world are increasingly drawn to it to satisfy social and environmental needs. Will Pryce is an award-winning photographer who trained as an architect and photojournalist. Intensely dramatic but not overdramatized, technically flawless but not merely documentary, his internationally acclaimed photographs convey all the excitement of encountering these amazing structures firsthand. He has traveled the world seeking the famous and the obscure. In the text he shows how the wooden heritage of Japan grew from its Buddhist history; how Russia's carpenters determined its iconic domes; how Norway's stave churches contain clues to her pagan past; how Turkic tribes brought the yali from Asia; how the settlers of New England employed a provincial English tradition on the new continent; and how, today, sophisticated architects such as Peter Zumthor and Renzo Piano are inventing an eloquent new wooden architecture.
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Contributor Bio(s): Pryce, Will: - Will Pryce is an award-winning photographer who originally trained as an architect at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Art, and photojournalism at the London College of Printing. His books include Big Shed, World Architecture: The Masterworks, and, with James W. P. Campbell, the widely acclaimed Brick: A World History. |