100 Contemporary Wood Buildings

Wood has returned as a building material across the world, used for bungalows and religious buildings, hot spring structures, company headquarters and entire urban districts. This survey presents 100 projects from China to Chile and looks at the technical, environmental and sensory qualities that have brought timber back into contemporary architecture.

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard and edited Connaissance des Arts for more than 20 years. His TASCHEN books include the Homes for Our Time series and monographs on architects such as Norman Foster and Tadao Ando. The book appears in TASCHEN’s Bibliotheca Universalis series, hardcover, 632 pages, with text in German, French and English.