'Wood’s Up' surveys the impact of timber architecture at the Aedes Architecture Forum

Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum has launched its latest exhibition, Wood’s Up!, a survey of 16 recent timber building designs that stand as examples for the use of the material and its future capacity to be used as a solution at mass scale in various typologies. 

A few of the 19 participating firms and designers include David Chipperfield, Snøhetta, LAVA, Coop Himmelb(l)au, SCAPE, Behnisch, and Francis Kéré, whose new all-wood childcare facility at the Technical University Munich debuted this week.

"Today, timber construction is no longer an architectural exoticism or the domain of a few specialists. The number of architectural practices working on timber projects is growing," curators say. "Gone are the days when the focus was on overcoming the technical challenges of timber construction (especially fire safety). Today's solutions are well known. Timber construction is no longer a quality in itself. Instead, like conventional buildings, today's timber structures must be evaluated on the basis of their spatial, conceptual and architectural quality. Contemporary timber construction has come of age."

The exhibition is open now and will remain on view through May 22nd at the Forum's Pankow, Berlin location.