Blank : speculations on CLT This book advances a much needed and transformational agenda for making architecture today through a close reading of cross laminated timber (CLT) and its material unit the CLT blank. Both matter of fact and multivalent economical and excessive the blank has untapped potential for experimentation innovation and research in architecture at various scales. Blank brings together texts and work from a wide range of theorists and practitioners who make CLT central to their inquiry and in turn suggest design approaches that broaden the materials cultural spatial and technological significance for architecture education engineering and industry. The book claims new conceptual territory for a material with extensive appeal whose theorization has been stuck in narratives of its sustainability. Slippages between art architecture and science help position Blank as an antidote to current conversations about CLT which are fixated on its mass production and carbon footprint portraying it as a bland product rather than an enabler of design. The book argues for the materials aesthetic and spatial potential conjuring the kind of world that CLT can create. Striking visuals contribute to repositioning CLT architecture though new forms of representation and design responses that continue to stay in touch with pragmatics From publishers web site