Holz Haus / Maisons De Bois / Wood Houses : Form in Rural Architecture

Blaser's well-illustrated book on wood in rural and rural-inspired architecture is perceptive and immensely satisfying.

216 pp with 120 b&w photos and 66 other illustrations: plans, working drawings, elevations, etc. In German, English French.

"...log and timber-framed structures in the alpine and sub-alpine parts of Switzerland, unsophisticated half-timbered buildings in Alsace, and wood houses in the towns of southwest Finland...." Blaser "values wood as a building material at its true worth -- both in the past and today -- and assesses its potentialities as well as its limitations."