Wood in Architecture: Rediscover the Material of Our Time

Chang An Liu

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.224.94

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Wood in Architecture: Rediscover the Material of Our Time

Abstract:

Wood has been one of the most popular building materials of the world and wooden buildings served as the predecessors and prototypes of architecture in history. This paper focuses on a single material, wood, as a tool to discuss the potential continuity of meaning in the material language of architecture and addresses the topic of the material imagination in architecture.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volume 224)

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94-98

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April 2011

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Chang An Liu

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Architecture, Culture, Material Imagination, Materiality, Wood

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