Blank: Speculations on CLT

Author:   Jennifer Bonner ,  Hanif Kara
Publisher:   Oro Editions
ISBN:  

9781954081024


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   23 March 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jennifer Bonner ,  Hanif Kara
Publisher:   Oro Editions
Imprint:   Oro Editions
Weight:   1.129kg
ISBN:  

9781954081024


ISBN 10:   1954081022
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   23 March 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Blank Towers Prologue: Built-in Sprezzatura - Erika Naginski After Timber Trends, or Speculations on the Cross-Laminated Timber Blank - Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara Blank Houses Endless Lamellae and Finer Grains: A Brief History of Better Wood - Erin Putalik Essential Planes - Christopher C. M. Lee On Blankness: Courtney Coffman Blank Panels Blank Shots: Monolithic Desires and Laminar Inevitabilities - Nader Tehrani Ten Points on CLT Models and Public Performance - Yasmin Vobis Wood Grain Models Constructing the Supergraphic: A Drawing of a Wall as Much as a Wall - Sam Jacob Cut-Out - Nelson Byun Lauren Halsey Surface Tensions - Victoria Camblin Jennifer Bolande Exploded Blanks Switcheroo, Blanks Everywhere - Jennifer Bonner Blank Characters: Elisions in Artistic Practice and Domestic Spaces - Sean Canty Pervasive Structural Analysis Dialogues of Material - Hanif Kara CLT Forecasts Contributors Image Credits Acknowledgments

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Manufacturers have an overwhelming influence on the design of timber buildings, many of which simply substitute structural wood for steel. As they spell out in their forthcoming book, Blank: Speculations on CLT (AR+D Publishing), Bonner and Kara fear that if architects relinquish mass timber to the control of industry, they will miss an opportunity to create a new architecture capable of meeting the exigencies of the 21st century. --The Architect's Newspaper


Manufacturers have an overwhelming influence on the design of timber buildings, many of which simply substitute structural wood for steel. As they spell out in their forthcoming book, Blank: Speculations on CLT (AR+D Publishing), Bonner and Kara fear that if architects relinquish mass timber to the control of industry, they will miss an opportunity to create a new architecture capable of meeting the exigencies of the 21st century. --The Architect's Newspaper


Manufacturers have an overwhelming influence on the design of timber buildings, many of which simply substitute structural wood for steel. As they spell out in their forthcoming book, Blank: Speculations on CLT (AR+D Publishing), Bonner and Kara fear that if architects relinquish mass timber to the control of industry, they will miss an opportunity to create a new architecture capable of meeting the exigencies of the 21st century. --The Architect's Newspaper ...offers a combination of thought-provoking essays and speculative design projections to reset the conversation around CLT, or cross-laminated timber. --Architectural Record


Manufacturers have an overwhelming influence on the design of timber buildings, many of which simply substitute structural wood for steel. As they spell out in their forthcoming book, Blank: Speculations on CLT (AR+D Publishing), Bonner and Kara fear that if architects relinquish mass timber to the control of industry, they will miss an opportunity to create a new architecture capable of meeting the exigencies of the 21st century. --The Architect's Newspaper ...offers a combination of thought-provoking essays and speculative design projections to reset the conversation around CLT, or cross-laminated timber. --Architectural Record


Author Information

Jennifer Bonner is director of MALL and associate professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of A Guide to the Dirty South-Atlanta and guest editor of a special issue of ART PAPERS on Los Angeles. Her design work, including Haus Gables, a single-family residence in Atlanta constructed of eighty-seven CLT panels, has been widely published and exhibited.       Professor Hanif Kara is cofounder and Design Director of AKT II, a design-led structural and civil engineering firm based in London, and professor in practice of architectural technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Hanif has gained international standing in the field of the built environment through practice, pioneering research, and education in interdisciplinary design.

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