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Most architects are aware that, despite being flammable, wood reacts very well against fire. Sustainable architecture is converting wood, an ancient material, into the innovative building material of the future. Its known virtues of warmth, beauty and elegance are complemented with the growing values of ecology...

Architects trust the structural use of wooden beams to combine beauty and sustainability. One innovation is wooden curtain walling. The concept of sustainable architecture seeks construction and building solutions that prioritise all that is sustainable and ecological and that, at the same time, spur creativity and...

Construction with this material reduces the carbon dioxide in atmosphere because wood is able to store CO2. Sustainable architecture seeks construction, urban planning and habitability responses starting with a way of living, and creating, that respects the environment. It is a philosophical attitude that nevertheless requires...