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• We have become entirely used to specifying generic materials and preset assemblies. My work engages particular ones.
• When we build with only a few materials (eg. a handful of tree species), we encourage a dumbing down of the natural world by our methods of extraction
• Wood comes from the forest, not Home Depot.
• There are some objects we should never need to make again if we prioritize reuse of existing stock.
• A wood building is not necessarily a good building. Some forests are carbon emitters.
• Mass timber is a bad word. Why not do more with less.
• Wooden moments connections are hard work.
• The gingko is an incredibly interesting trees
• I’m known mostly for composing and working with unusual bits of tree.
• The goal is not to digitally automate wood construction from photosynthesis to finished form.
• Separating building and design activities results in bad buildings.
• Copying can be a good thing if you take ideas further. We all stand on others’ shoulders.
• Living in and around your designs helps
• Beyond making manufacturing processes faster, digital technologies can enhance our knowledge of trees and, ultimately, help us develop more ecological ways of working with them.
• My real interest is in novel combinations of new and old processes. Combining well in pursuit of better ways to build.
• With the benefit of hindsight, my life has been pretty wood-ey.
• Maximizing carbon sequestered in buildings alone neglects the fact that trees achieve this while alive.
• Trees are the largest living beings on Earth.
• A building future at ease with the environment will be made diversely.
• Most of my work is collaborative, lots of it taken on with students.
• We need to be better at working with what’s around, in the state its in.
• digital tools to harness, not create complexity
• Use more wet wood closer to where its from
• Wood is so much more capable than we give it credit for.
• Use just enough technology to get the job done.
• Each project should be considered from the pragmatic to fantastical.
• All design should be considered from cellular to planetary scales. This is not a new point, but it remains uncommon.
• We need to challenge primary systems that lead to so much bad building.
• You can read a lot into the grain of a single piece of wood.
• No one tool or novel construction method is the answer. Combine well.
• We ignore the real impacts of building when existing manufacturing processes are taken for granted
• There are some objects we should be done with designing by now.
• Make Architecture Building Again
• We need to consider how materials are made, where, what forms they prefer and how they might be used again.
• The more we can do with less of anything the better
• Science of complimentary materials (John Makepeace)
• Architecture schools don’t need to produce architects
• On-site processing of near to site materials