Architecture in wood
Subtitle: the Timber Prize 2012
By: [graphic design: Daniel Bjugård and Mattias Sjöstedt ; photography: Åke E:son Lindman ; English translation: Roger Tanner]
Publisher: Arena Bokförlaget
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malmö
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9789178433797
Subjects: Architecture; Wooden Building; Awards
Description: The Timber Prize is a prize of honour endowed by the Swedish Forest Industries Federation. It is a prize for good Swedish wooden architecture reflecting our times" (Timber Prize Statutes, Article 1). The Timber Prize was first awarded in 1967 and since 1988 has been presented at four-yearly intervals. It was in 1988 that the tradition was inaugurated of not just selecting a winner but nominating a group of the most distinguished entries and presenting them in book form. This is the seventh book in the series. The books containing the nominated entries have achieved widespread currency and made outstanding Swedish wooden architecture widely known and studied. The books on the Timber Prize describe a development of wooden architecture which, while following on from a tradition of building with wood, renews wooden architecture in a process of interaction with contemporary trends.