Light on Wood: Mass Timber Architecture

By Susan H. Jones

Timber is
not only a sustainable material, it also creates warm, welcoming, sheltering
spaces that offer an emotional quality to their users. Light on Wood is
a very personal story about how to design and build with mass timber. Author
Susan H. Jones, a native of the Pacific Northwest with its seemingly endless
forests, founded atelierjones in Seattle some 20 years ago. This pioneering
practice has since made a name for itself by working to decarbonize our built
environment. It carefully investigated the behavior of wood in case of fire, in
an effort to rewrite the code, and undertook life cycle analyses to further the
body of research on timber. Changes in building codes have since helped to
reestablish this traditional building material in many countries. But the
office also designed many beautiful buildings, often developed in cooperation
with local communities.

Projects
shown include the Marian Chapel in Seattle, the First Congregational Church in
Bellevue, Washington, and the Roundhouse in Greenville, California, for the
people of the Maidu
Practical, hands-on survey with many details and construction photos
Lavishly illustrated and attractive cloth-bound volume

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3035629900
• ISBN13: 9783035629903
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.6" x 11.3"