INTRODUCTION. In the Wonderland of Wood -- PROJECTS AND PROCESSES. CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS, PRODUCTS, EXPERIMENTS, MAKING-OFS, AND NEW DIMENSIONS FOR WOOD IN DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, AND ART -- 24H › Architecture -- Werner Aisslinger -- Alice -- Architekten Martenson und Nagel-Theissen -- Yemi Awosile -- Shin Azumi -- Maarten Baas -- Bernardo Bader -- Aldo Bakker -- Stephan Balkenhol › Interview -- Bamboosero -- Shigeru Ban Architects -- Bark Cloth, Barktex -- Georg Baselitz -- Baubotanik -- BCXSY -- Bernath+Widmer -- Beton -- Patrick Blanchard -- Jörg Boner › Interview -- Tord Boontje -- Gion A. Caminada › Interview -- Nick Cave -- Gehard Demetz -- Marco Dessi -- Stefan Diez › Interview -- Doshi Levien -- Dutch Invertuals -- Piet Hein Eek -- Fehling & Peiz -- Hans-Peter Feldmann -- Laetitia Florin / ECAL -- Malcolm Fraser Architects -- Front -- Terunobu Fujimori -- Elise Gabriel -- Martino Gamper -- Liam Gillick -- Glass Hill -- GRAFT › Interview -- Gramazio & Kohler -- Konstantin Grcic › Interview -- Guallart Architects -- Max and Hannes Gumpp -- Florian Hauswirth › Interview -- Stuart Haygarth -- Heide und von Beckerath Architekten -- Staffan Holm -- Benjamin Hubert -- Enrique Illánez Schoenenberger/ECAL -- INCHfurniture › Interview -- ICD, Institute for computational Design (Prof. Achim Menges) and ITKE, Institute of Building structures and structural Design (Prof. Jan Knippers), University of Stuttgart -- ICD, Institute for computational Design (Prof. Achim Menges), University of Stuttgart -- Iwamoto Scott Architecture with Buro Happold -- Hella Jongerius › Interview -- Cordula Kehrer -- Steffen Kehrle -- Ko-Ho -- Kraus Schönberg Architekten -- Kengo Kuma & Associates -- Maya Lahmy -- Lassila Hirvilammi Arkkitehdit -- Le Briccole di Venezia -- Seongyong Lee -- Hans Lemmen -- Khai Liew -- Kai Linke -- Idee Liu -- Localarchitecture.

Paul Loebach -- Philippe Malouin -- Enzo Mari -- Michael Marriott -- Jürgen Mayer H. › Interview -- Junichi Mori -- Paola Navone -- Nendo -- Sascha Nordmeyer -- Henrique Oliveira -- Jens Otten -- Harry Parr-Young -- Patternity -- Lex Pott -- Ray Power -- Philippe Rahm architectes -- Raw Edges -- Steffen Reichert -- Steffen Reichert with Prof. Achim Menges and Florian Krampe at the ICD, Institute for Computational Design, University of Stuttgart -- ROLU, rosenlof/lucas, ro/lu -- Adrien Rovero -- Marc Sadler -- Stefan Sagmeister › Interview -- Colin Schaelli -- Albrecht Schäfer -- Scholten & Baijings -- Franziska Schreiber -- Tilo Schulz › Interview -- Jerszy Seymour -- DJ Simpson -- Ernst Stark -- Wolfgang Stehle -- Elisa Strozyk › Interview -- Studio Formafantasma -- Studio Jens Praet -- Studio Job -- Tb&Ajkay with Karl-Johan Hjerling and Karin Widmark -- The Medley Institute by Jana Patz -- Katharina Trudzinski -- Xavier Veilhan -- Charlotte Wagemaker -- Waugh Thistleton Architects -- Ai Weiwei -- Wingårdh Arkitektkontor -- Martin Wöhrl -- Bethan Laura Wood -- Richard Woods -- MATERIAL AND TECHNOLOGY GUIDE. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES AND INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AREAS OF WOOD AND WOOD-BASED MATERIALS, PRODUCTION PROCESSES, AND CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLES IN TIMBER BUILDING -- I MATERIAL -- 1 Wood-definition and characteristics -- 2 Solid wood -- 3 Veneer -- 4 Wood-based materials -- II TECHNOLOGY: PRODUCTION PROCESSES -- 1 Reshaping -- 2 Separating -- 3 Joining -- 4 Coatings -- 5 Changing the characteristics of materials -- III TECHNOLOGY: THE PRINCIPLES OF TIMBER CONSTRUCTION -- 1 Timber frame construction -- 2 Solid timber construction -- 3 Natural building processes -- APPENDIX -- Biographies -- Index -- Picture credits -- Bibliography and sources (selection) -- Acknowledgments / The Authors.