The Resource Architecture in wood : a world history : with over 400 colour illustrations, Will Pryce
Architecture in wood : a world history : with over 400 colour illustrations, Will Pryce
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The item Architecture in wood : a world history : with over 400 colour illustrations, Will Pryce represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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The item Architecture in wood : a world history : with over 400 colour illustrations, Will Pryce represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Wood has unique qualities, yet 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, the most admired architectural photographer in Britain, has travelled the world seeking both famous and obscure buildings in wood. Intensely dramatic but not over-dramatized, technically flawless, but not merely documentary, his photographs convey all the excitement of encountering these amazing structures first hand. In the substantial 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 would use 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Compact edition.
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Note
- Originally published: 2005
- Contents
-
- A way of building
- The Far East
- Northern Europe
- Western Europe
- Eastern Europe
- America
- South-East Asia
- Australia
- A future for wood
- A different approach
- Isbn
- 9780500343180
- Label
- Architecture in wood : a world history : with over 400 colour illustrations
- Title
- Architecture in wood
- Title remainder
- a world history : with over 400 colour illustrations
- Statement of responsibility
- Will Pryce
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Wood has unique qualities, yet 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, the most admired architectural photographer in Britain, has travelled the world seeking both famous and obscure buildings in wood. Intensely dramatic but not over-dramatized, technically flawless, but not merely documentary, his photographs convey all the excitement of encountering these amazing structures first hand. In the substantial 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 would use 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
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pryce, Will
- Dewey number
- 721.0448
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Building, Wooden
- Building, Wooden
- Building, Wooden
- Architectural woodwork
- Architecture
- Architectural woodwork
- Architecture
- Building, Wooden
- Holzbau
- Label
- Architecture in wood : a world history : with over 400 colour illustrations, Will Pryce
- Note
- Originally published: 2005
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-317) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A way of building -- The Far East -- Northern Europe -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe -- America -- South-East Asia -- Australia -- A future for wood -- A different approach
- Control code
- 1715317
- Dimensions
- 30 cm
- Edition
- Compact edition.
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Isbn
- 9780500343180
- Lccn
- 2015951003
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780500343180
- (OCoLC)941878781
- Label
- Architecture in wood : a world history : with over 400 colour illustrations, Will Pryce
- Note
- Originally published: 2005
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-317) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A way of building -- The Far East -- Northern Europe -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe -- America -- South-East Asia -- Australia -- A future for wood -- A different approach
- Control code
- 1715317
- Dimensions
- 30 cm
- Edition
- Compact edition.
- Extent
- 320 pages
- Isbn
- 9780500343180
- Lccn
- 2015951003
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780500343180
- (OCoLC)941878781
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