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Luis Morgado
Apr 72 min read
Exploring the Timeless Craft: The Art of Wood Construction Systems and Their Traditions
Studying the traditions of wood construction.
Luis Morgado
Jun 30, 20234 min read
Architecture in Times of War
An architecture practice in Ukraine is responding to the need for rebuilding and providing shelter.
Luis Morgado
Oct 31, 20225 min read
CLT – The wood wonder material!
CLT - The wood wonder material. Brief notes on the origins and advantages of Cross Laminated Timber.
Luis Morgado
May 7, 20189 min read
Wood Towers – Tall and ecological
1 – Tall buildings Chicago and New York invented the skyscraper not only because they had clever minds and technology, but also because...
Luis Morgado
Mar 31, 20185 min read
Charter for Wood – How Germans value wood
We are in trouble! The pressure of additional 2,5 billion people will increase resource consumption. We will need more energy, more food,...
Luis Morgado
Mar 4, 20189 min read
A great book on architecture
A book that really impressed me, when I started to study wood construction, was Colin Davies' "The Prefabricated Home" (Reaktion, 2005).
Luis Morgado
Feb 4, 201811 min read
Important facts about wood
In a previous post, I discussed the "Renaissance of wood." Building upon that, I would like to present the key facts that I believe are...
Luis Morgado
Jan 7, 20188 min read
Why should we build with wood?
Wood swells, shrinks, splits, burns, rots, and changes color. But, worse yet, it is a material that, if we want to use it in...
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