Wonder Wood (eBook)

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Barbara Glasner holds a master’s degree in interior design and works as a consultant and freelance curator for design and architecture in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. From 2001 to 2007, in collaboration with the German Design Council, she supervised the various editions of the highly successful design project “ideal house cologne,” where internationally renowned designers such as Zaha Hadid, Hella Jongerius, Patricia Urquiola, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Konstantin Grcic, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Naoto Fukasawa, Stefan Diez, and Dieter Rams presented their visions of future living at the International Furniture Fair (imm cologne) in Cologne, Germany. In 2008, she published the book Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture together with Petra Schmidt and Ursula Schöndeling, and in 2009 Chroma. Design, Architecture, and Art in Color in cooperation with Petra Schmidt, both published by Birkhäuser Verlag. www.barbara-glasner.de

Stephan Ott holds an MA in German Studies, History, Politics and Theater, Film and Television Studies and works as a freelance author, journalist and editor with a key focus on design. Between 1999 and 2012 Ott worked for the German Design Council and initially headed their press and publicity department. Until recently he was responsible there for communications strategy and conception as well as the editorial department. Since July 2012, Stephan Ott has been editor-in-chief of the design magazine form. He also teaches text design at the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA) Frankfurt. www.design-international.net

INTRODUCTION. In the Wonderland of Wood 6
PROJECTS AND PROCESSES. CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS, PRODUCTS, EXPERIMENTS, MAKING-OFS, AND NEW DIMENSIONS FOR WOOD IN DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, AND ART 9
24H › Architecture 11
Werner Aisslinger 12
Alice 14
Architekten Martenson und Nagel-Theissen 16
Yemi Awosile 20
Shin Azumi 24
Maarten Baas 25
Bernardo Bader 28
Aldo Bakker 30
Stephan Balkenhol › Interview 32
Bamboosero 36
Shigeru Ban Architects 37
Bark Cloth, Barktex 40
Georg Baselitz 42
Baubotanik 43
BCXSY 48
Bernath+Widmer 50
Beton 52
Patrick Blanchard 54
Jörg Boner › Interview 56
Tord Boontje 60
Gion A. Caminada › Interview 62
Nick Cave 68
Gehard Demetz 69
Marco Dessi 72
Stefan Diez › Interview 74
Doshi Levien 78
Dutch Invertuals 80
Piet Hein Eek 81
Fehling & Peiz
Hans-Peter Feldmann 85
Laetitia Florin / ECAL 86
Malcolm Fraser Architects 88
Front 89
Terunobu Fujimori 90
Elise Gabriel 92
Martino Gamper 93
Liam Gillick 96
Glass Hill 98
GRAFT › Interview 100
Gramazio & Kohler
Konstantin Grcic › Interview 106
Guallart Architects 112
Max and Hannes Gumpp 114
Florian Hauswirth › Interview 115
Stuart Haygarth 120
Heide und von Beckerath Architekten 121
Staffan Holm 122
Benjamin Hubert 124
Enrique Illánez Schoenenberger/ECAL 126
INCHfurniture › Interview 127
ICD, Institute for computational Design (Prof. Achim Menges) and ITKE, Institute of Building structures and structural Design (Prof. Jan Knippers), University of Stuttgart 132
ICD, Institute for computational Design (Prof. Achim Menges), University of Stuttgart 134
Iwamoto Scott Architecture with Buro Happold 136
Hella Jongerius › Interview 137
Cordula Kehrer 142
Steffen Kehrle 144
Ko-Ho 148
Kraus Schönberg Architekten 150
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maya Lahmy 154
Lassila Hirvilammi Arkkitehdit 156
Le Briccole di Venezia 158
Seongyong Lee 160
Hans Lemmen 161
Khai Liew 162
Kai Linke 163
Idee Liu 166
Localarchitecture 167
Paul Loebach 170
Philippe Malouin 174
Enzo Mari 175
Michael Marriott 176
Jürgen Mayer H. › Interview 177
Junichi Mori 182
Paola Navone 184
Nendo 185
Sascha Nordmeyer 187
Henrique Oliveira 188
Jens Otten 190
Harry Parr-Young 191
Patternity 192
Lex Pott 194
Ray Power 196
Philippe Rahm architectes 197
Raw Edges 198
Steffen Reichert 202
Steffen Reichert with Prof. Achim Menges and Florian Krampe at the ICD, Institute for Computational Design, University of Stuttgart 203
ROLU, rosenlof/lucas, ro/lu 204
Adrien Rovero 206
Marc Sadler 208
Stefan Sagmeister › Interview 209
Colin Schaelli 214
Albrecht Schäfer 216
Scholten & Baijings
Franziska Schreiber 219
Tilo Schulz › Interview 220
Jerszy Seymour 224
DJ Simpson 225
Ernst Stark 226
Wolfgang Stehle 228
Elisa Strozyk › Interview 230
Studio Formafantasma 236
Studio Jens Praet 237
Studio Job 238
Tb& Ajkay with Karl-Johan Hjerling and Karin Widmark
The Medley Institute by Jana Patz 240
Katharina Trudzinski 242
Xavier Veilhan 244
Charlotte Wagemaker 245
Waugh Thistleton Architects 248
Ai Weiwei 250
Wingårdh Arkitektkontor 252
Martin Wöhrl 253
Bethan Laura Wood 254
Richard Woods 255
MATERIAL AND TECHNOLOGY GUIDE. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES AND INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AREAS OF WOOD AND WOOD-BASED MATERIALS, PRODUCTION PROCESSES, AND CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLES IN TIMBER BUILDING 257
I MATERIAL 259
1 Wood–definition and characteristics 260
2 Solid wood 261
3 Veneer 263
4 Wood-based materials 264
II TECHNOLOGY: PRODUCTION PROCESSES 269
1 Reshaping 270
2 Separating 270
3 Joining 271
4 Coatings 273
5 Changing the characteristics of materials 273
III TECHNOLOGY: THE PRINCIPLES OF TIMBER CONSTRUCTION 275
1 Timber frame construction 276
2 Solid timber construction 276
3 Natural building processes 276
APPENDIX 277
Biographies 278
Index 284
Picture credits 290
Bibliography and sources (selection) 294
Acknowledgments / The Authors 295