Study on the Use of Wood in the Architecture Design

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Cave paintings from eight thousand years ago show that wood is one of the original building materials used by human. The earliest known wooden artefacts are about l4,000 years old. The history of wooden buildings is so long that its properties and effects on people and the environment are thoroughly known, which is a significant factor compared with today's synthetic building materials. For wood has many advantages, it will be sure to play an important role in the architecture design continuously in the future.

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