·       INTRODUCTION
·       CONSTRUCTION IN STONE
·       CONSTRUCTION IN EARTH: TAPIA, ADOBE, AND BAHAREQUE
·       CONSTRUCTION IN WOOD
·       CONSTRUCTION IN VEGETABLE FIBERS
·       TENTS
·       A MANNER OF CONCLUSION

CONSTRUCTION IN WOOD

Grand marshes of the Magdalena river

Trojas of Cataca
Colombia

Grand marshes of the Magdalena river. Trojas of Cataca	San Onofre

San Onofre	Grand marshes of the Magdalena river. Trojas of Cataca
Colombia

Bridges made of wood

Bridges made of wood	House on San Andrés Island
Colombia

San Andrés Island, Houses made in wood

La Botero ranch, Puente Iglesias

Martinica Island. Houses made of wood

Martinica Isaland. Domain Clement	Russia. House made of wood

Detail of chapel roof	Church
Finland

"Place is the focus of desire."
Lucy Lippard

"The intersections between nature, culture, history and ideology form the ground on which we stand "our land, our place, the local."
Lucy Lippard

"Home is where one starts from... We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
T.S. Eliot

"No landscape but… a kind of self-destroying postcard world of failed immortality and  oppressive grandeur."
Robert Smithson, in reference to another Passaic site referred to in his work Negative Maps.

Wood is an architectural base in the rich zones of this natural resource. It is the reason for such a typolithographically diversion like a Swiss farmhouse, the farms and houses from Sweden, Denmark and Finland, the Russian orthodox churches, and the [dachas] summer in the same country.

It is excellent in hot and humid countries, like Japan. The simple construction of Japanese cypress reflects the appearance and spirit of the old architecture designed in order to harmonize peacefully with the surrounding nature. 

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