Fall 2016 Lecture Series
Full Lecture Video: https://vimeo.com/ricedesignalliance/andrewwaugh
Climate change seems destined to skew the economics of building toward wood. Given its unique ability to store and sequester carbon out of the atmosphere, wood stands to become as prominent a building material in the next century as concrete was in the last.
What would happen to the way architects design with wood were we to think of it in these terms? How might this impact our buildings and cities?
The Rice School School of Architecture and the Rice Design Alliance present Mass Timber, the Fall 2016 Lecture Series. Curated by Albert Pope, Gus Sessions Wortham Professor at the Rice School of Architecture, the series brings together a small group of practitioners who pursue these questions and will assess where we are today and present opportunities for further technical and design innovation with wood.