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Synopsis
A building material of the future, timber bridges the gap between nature and technology. A sustainable resource and climate-friendly construction material, timber is also materialised solar energy and carbon dioxide accumulator. As a universally applicable heat-insulating material and highly resilient natural product, it is the building material of the future. In this book renouned experts examine timber's ecological importance, it's technological potential as well as the new possibilities for...
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A building material of the future, timber bridges the gap between nature and technology. A sustainable resource and climate-friendly construction material, timber is also materialised solar energy and carbon dioxide accumulator. In this book renouned experts examine timber's ecological importance, it's technological potential as well as the new possibilities for architectural construction and design of the familiar material.
About the Author
Hermann Kaufmann is an architect and professor at the Institute for Architectural Design and Building Technology at the Technische Universitat Munchen, Teaching and Research Unit of Timber Construction. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern timber construction in Europe. Winfried Nerdinger is professor for history of architecture and director of the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universitat Munchen. He has published extensively on the history of...
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- PublisherPrestel
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 3791351818
- ISBN 13 9783791351810
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
- EditorKaufmann Hermann
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