Blank
Subtitle: speculations on CLT
By: Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara, editors
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Novato, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781954081024
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Laminated wood construction; Modern Architecture; Construction en bois lamellé collé; Architecture
Work titles: Blank (Novato, Calif.)
Description: "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 material's 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 material's 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 publisher's web site
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Blank Towers.; title: Prologue: Built-in sprezzatura  -- Erika Naginski; title: After timber trends, or speculations on the cross-laminated timber blank  -- Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara -- Blank Houses.; title: Endless lamellae and finer grains: A brief history of better wood  -- Erin Putalik; title: Essential planes  -- Christopher C. M. Lee; title: On blankness :  -- Courtney Coffman -- Blank panels.; title: Blank shots: Monolithic desires and laminar inevitabilities  -- Nader Tehrani; title: Ten points on CLT models and public performance  -- Yasmin Vobis -- Wood grain models.; title: Constructing the supergraphic: A drawing of a wall as much as a wall  -- Sam Jacob; title: Cut-out  -- Nelson Byun; title: Lauren Halsey --; title: Surface tensions  -- Victoria Camblin; title: Jennifer Bolande -- -- Exploded blanks.; title: Switcheroo, blanks everywhere  -- Jennifer Bonner; title: Blank characters: Elisions in artistic practice and domestic spaces  -- Sean Canty -- Pervasive structural analysis.; title: Dialogues of material -- Hanif Kara-- CLT forecasts.