中文简介：

自然、可再生、可重复使用，而且美观的木材是理想的建筑材料。由于应用和可持续性方面的惊人进步，木材正应用于世界各地创造新的、令人惊奇的风格。本书收录了来自世界各地的精美照片，捕捉到21世纪住宅、公共、文化、教育、商业和娱乐空间中的各种建筑。从日本静冈的富士世界遗产中心和法罗群岛的埃斯特尔市政厅，到俄勒冈州林业学院和新建成的挪威科阿夫曼塔国家剧院高中，每座建筑都配有丰富的彩色照片，让读者可以在各种背景、规模和类型中欣赏木材的内在特性。计划和建筑规范配有新的研究和设计进展。木材环保耐用，应用几乎无限，可以延伸到摩天大楼，还可以延伸到地球上的每一个宜居角落。本书提供了令人鼓舞的证据，表明世界各地的建筑师不仅以保护地球方式来应对气候危机，而且还提供了宜人的生活、工作和娱乐环境。

英文简介：

Natural, renewable, reusable, and aesthetically pleasing, wood is the consummate building material. Thanks to incredible advances in both application and sustainability, it is being used across the world to create new and surprising styles. This exhilarating global survey features exquisite photography that captures a wide range of twenty-first century construction in residential, public, cultural, educational, commercial, and entertainment-related spaces. From the Mount Fuji World Heritage Center in Shizuoka, Japan and the Eystur Town Hall in the Faroe Islands to the College of Forestry at Oregon State University the newly completed Coarvematta National Theater High School in Norway, each building is featured in double-page spreads with lush color photographs that allow readers to appreciate timber's intrinsic qualities against a variety of backgrounds, scales, and typologies. Plans and building specifications are accompanied by the latest developments in research and design. Eco-friendly and robust, timber's applications are almost unlimited, extending to the tallest skyscrapers, and to every livable corner of our planet. This volume offers encouraging proof that architects around the world are responding to a climate crisis in ways that not only preserve the earth, but also provide pleasing environments in which to live, work, and play.