A pioneer of timber frame architecture, Iwona Buczkowska makes the case for the construction qualities of wood as well as the pleasure that it gives to its residents. They provide configurations that are both family-friendly and intimate, open, and collective. Iwona Buczkowska views housing as the point of convergence between ecology and sociality.
Building on this domestic equation, she questions the city and its developments in a time of the necessary ecological transition, hoping that the lessons of thrift and community will inform its future.
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For more information, see our legal notices. Ecology, sociality of architecture and pleasure of living A pioneer of timber frame architecture, Iwona Buczkowska makes the case for the construction qualities of wood as well as the pleasure that it gives to its residents. Iwona Buczkowska Architect and Urban planner.
Escape the big cities⦠if we have the means to do so. What could we expect from large urban centers dominated by commercialism and financial speculation? Given this context, the utopian community vision, rarely achieved, remains fully relevant today.
