Last fall, Smith College opened Kathleen McCartney Hall — a 15,000-square-foot mass timber hub on its Frederick Law Olmsted–designed campus in Northampton, Massachusetts. Designed by
In 2018, NELMA challenged architecture and design students to imagine a lunar colony built with wood. At the time, it read like creative speculation —
The lumber industry has long supplied the raw material for civilization — framing homes, shaping skylines, furnishing interiors. But raw material alone doesn’t drive innovation.
For a siding style rooted in practicality — wide boards nailed to barn frames, with narrow strips sealing the gaps against a New England winter
Over a century ago, a group of architects gathered at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to judge a design competition for
In 1915, the White Pine Bureau did something most industries wouldn’t think to do for another century: they hired a respected architectural editor, put serious
