Wood: Rethinking Material
<p><em>Bilingual edition (English/German)</em></p> <p>As an organic building material, wood is held in particularly high esteem in this age of climate crisis. A component of environmentally friendly resource cycles, wood demonstrates its innovative potential when used in new technological developments and hybrid applications that are suited to complex, modern architectural tasks. We have only just started reimagining wood as a cutting-edge, versatile building material of the future.</p> <p><em>GAM. 17</em> takes a new look at wood—at its multi-faceted nature and architectural possibilities— and proposes building and design concepts that fully utilize the material’s potential for a more climate-friendly construction industry. This is further complemented by a look back at the history of building with wood and the ideological entanglements that have long stood in the way of the further development of wood as a building material.</p>
Guest Editor: Tom Kaden
Editors: Daniel Gethmann, Petra Eckhard, Urs Hirschberg, Andreas Lechner, Petra Petersson
Contributors: Reyner Banham, Alan Crivellaro, Formafantasma, Andrea Trimarchi, Simone Farresin, Don Fuchs, Urs Hirschberg, Anne Isopp, Tom Kaden, Thomas Körner, @TOM, Jens Ludloff, Flavio Ruffinatto, Laila Seewang, Kai Strehlke, Stephan Trüby, Anselm Wagner, Stefan Winter, Francesca Zanotto, Sabine Bauer, Petra Eckhard, Daniel Gethmann, Lukas Gosch, Alexander Grasser, Tobias Gruber, Georg Hansemann, Clemens Haßlinger, Franziska Hederer, Urs Hirschberg, Waltraud P. Indrist, Lorenz Kastner, Ena Kukić, Andreas Lechner, Susannah Leopold, Klaus K. Loenhart, Markus Monsberger, Lisa Obermayer, Iulius Popa, Radostina Radulova-Stahmer, Jana Rieth, Christine Rossegger, Philipp Sattler, Lea Schuiki, Eva Schwab, Eva Sollgruber, Christoph Solstreif-Pirker, Armin Stocker, Maike Gold
Translators: Katie Louise Gough
Designer: MVD Austria, Michael Rieper, Christine Schmauszer, Georg Skerbisch
Graz University of Technology, JOVIS
Part of: GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine
ISBN: 978-3-86859-963-3