Book Description
Bambusa guadua, the tropical giant bamboo, is the most versatile, reliable architectural material of its native mountainous regions. Bamboo's delightful exterior and exotic reputation obscures its oaklike strength.
New Bamboo is a color portfolio of contemporary structures and decorative designs demonstrating the appeal of building with natural materials for the modern eye. Properly treated, bamboo is as reliable as prime-grade hardwoods, beautiful in its own right, and suitable for commercial and residential structures in any climate.
This is an anthology of bamboo construction by different experts: an agronomist, architects, a designer, and a builder, that showcases projects in Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia, where this product has been used as a traditional construction material for centuries. Also covered are France and Germany, where architects are discovering the delights of working with bamboo.
Guadua is beautiful but not so delicate that it cannot be used in commercial structures like the auditorium-size pavilion built for the Hannover Expo 2000. Here are delightful details and rugged outbuildings that show bamboo as a most natural design element.
New Bamboo is a color portfolio of contemporary structures and decorative designs demonstrating the appeal of building with natural materials for the modern eye. Properly treated, bamboo is as reliable as prime-grade hardwoods, beautiful in its own right, and suitable for commercial and residential structures in any climate.
This is an anthology of bamboo construction by different experts: an agronomist, architects, a designer, and a builder, that showcases projects in Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia, where this product has been used as a traditional construction material for centuries. Also covered are France and Germany, where architects are discovering the delights of working with bamboo.
Guadua is beautiful but not so delicate that it cannot be used in commercial structures like the auditorium-size pavilion built for the Hannover Expo 2000. Here are delightful details and rugged outbuildings that show bamboo as a most natural design element.
About the Author
Marcelo Villegas is the author of Villegas' book, Tropical Bamboo.
Simon Velez conducts workshops on the structural use of natural materials for construction in Colombia and abroad.
Ximena Londono, a specialist in taxonomic botany of the American bamboo, has worked for the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
Jean Dethier is a practicing architect and an advisor to the Department of Architecture at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris.
The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban designed the all-bamboo Japanese Pavillion at Expo-Hanover 2000.
Frey Otto, the author of books on the structural values of bamboo, lives in Germany.
Simon Velez conducts workshops on the structural use of natural materials for construction in Colombia and abroad.
Ximena Londono, a specialist in taxonomic botany of the American bamboo, has worked for the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
Jean Dethier is a practicing architect and an advisor to the Department of Architecture at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris.
The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban designed the all-bamboo Japanese Pavillion at Expo-Hanover 2000.
Frey Otto, the author of books on the structural values of bamboo, lives in Germany.
