Luis Morgado
Exploring the Timeless Craft: The Art of Wood Construction Systems and Their Traditions
Studying the traditions of wood construction.
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Luis Morgado
- Jun 30, 2023
- 4 min
Architecture in Times of War
An architecture practice in Ukraine is responding to the need for rebuilding and providing shelter.
Luis Morgado
- Oct 31, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2018
- 9 min
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
- Apr 1, 2018
- 5 min
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, 2018
- 9 min
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, 2018
- 11 min
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, 2018
- 8 min
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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