{"product_id":"light-on-wood-mass-timber-architecture-9783035629903","title":"Light on Wood: Mass Timber Architecture","description":"Timber is\u003cbr\u003enot only a sustainable material, it also creates warm, welcoming, sheltering\u003cbr\u003espaces that offer an emotional quality to their users. \u003ci\u003eLight on Wood\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003cbr\u003ea very personal story about how to design and build with mass timber. Author\u003cbr\u003eSusan H. Jones, a native of the Pacific Northwest with its seemingly endless\u003cbr\u003eforests, founded atelierjones in Seattle some 20 years ago. This pioneering\u003cbr\u003epractice has since made a name for itself by working to decarbonize our built\u003cbr\u003eenvironment. It carefully investigated the behavior of wood in case of fire, in\u003cbr\u003ean effort to rewrite the code, and undertook life cycle analyses to further the\u003cbr\u003ebody of research on timber. Changes in building codes have since helped to\u003cbr\u003ereestablish this traditional building material in many countries. But the\u003cbr\u003eoffice also designed many beautiful buildings, often developed in cooperation\u003cbr\u003ewith local communities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProjects\u003cbr\u003eshown include the Marian Chapel in Seattle, the First Congregational Church in\u003cbr\u003eBellevue, Washington, and the Roundhouse in Greenville, California, for the\u003cbr\u003epeople of the Maidu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePractical, hands-on survey with many details and construction photos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eLavishly illustrated and attractive cloth-bound volume\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan H. Jones, \u003c\/b\u003e FAIA, is founder and Principal Architect of Seattle-based atelierjones.\u003cbr\u003eDevoted to disrupting 20th century design and construction methodologies, her\u003cbr\u003eaward-winning, all-woman owned and woman-led architecture firm drives new\u003cbr\u003elower-carbon pathways within architecture and construction at scale. Advancing\u003cbr\u003elower-carbon prefabricated mass timber systems, for over a decade, the firm has\u003cbr\u003ecompleted over a dozen mass timber projects, and has designed over twenty, from\u003cbr\u003einstitutional buildings to large-scale urban housing to urban infill housing, \u003cbr\u003esingle-family homes and rural\/WUI mass timber modular housing. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA\u003cbr\u003ethird-generation native of the Pacific Northwest, Susan grew up in Bellingham, \u003cbr\u003eWashington, She earned her B.A from Stanford in Philosophy, and her M.Arch from\u003cbr\u003eHarvard GSD and is Affiliate Associate Professor of Architecture at the\u003cbr\u003eUniversity of Washington, Susan is a Fellow of the American Institute of\u003cbr\u003eArchitects, was awarded the AIASeattle Gold Medal in 2023 and the Women in\u003cbr\u003eArchitecture award by Architectural Record in 2024. Susan lives in Seattle, WA. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Birkhauser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127746982162,"sku":"9783035629903","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3ca0aa9-5450-4397-b4fe-c392da62671c.jpg?v=1773746364","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/light-on-wood-mass-timber-architecture-9783035629903","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}