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Wood is a fresh, insightful and surprising look at the world's best timber architecture.With 170 structures from the last 1,000 years, Wood features projects from some of the world's most celebrated architects. Renzo Piano's otherworldly New Caledonian Cultural Centre is found alongside projects from Tadao Ando and Peter Zumthor. Even the work of Le Corbusier, an architect best known for his work in concrete, is shown - his humble Mediterranean log cabin, Le Cabanon, was his last home.Arranged to promote comparison and discussion, the selected projects take the reader on a global tour of inspiring and intriguing structures: a Vietnamese village hall sits beside a state-of-the-art Belgian laboratory, an Italian anatomical theatre alongside a luxurious Canadian sauna and an onion-domed Russian church next to a fortified Japanese castle.
About the Author
William Hall trained at Central Saint Martins in London and began his career in the office of the minimalist architect John Pawson. He now runs his own design and art direction practice in London, working with clients such as Calvin Klein, Erdem, MoMA and Tate.
As a book designer Hall has had an illustrious career with a wide variety of publications to his credit, including: 'Architecture of Truth' (Phaidon, 2001) ; 'Living and Eating' (Ebury, 2001) ; Giorgio Locatelli's 'Made In Italy' (Fourth Estate, 2006) ; 'Plain Space' (Phaidon, 2010) ; 'Mies' (Phaidon, 2014) ; and 'elBulli 2005-2011' (Phaidon, 2014) . 'Concrete', 'Brick' and 'Wood' were all conceived, written and designed by Hall.
