Title: Framework houses
Description: "The Siegen industrial region is located in Germany some sixty miles east of Cologne. It is one of the oldest iron-producing regions of Europe. For a long time a law, passed in 1790, regulated the use of wood for building purposes intending to save wood, which, in the form of charcoal, was the energy base for iron-smelting.

Owing to this self-imposed restriction an ideal framework structure in housebuilding developed, eliminating all construction elements that served only ornamental purposes."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Wooden-frame houses, Pictorial works, Wooden-frame buildings, Architecture, domestic, germany, Architectural photography
Places: Germany, Siegen Region