An editorial series exploring the potential of mass timber that asks whether going back to wood as our primary construction material can lead the world to a more sustainable future.

“We can’t detox our built environment by swapping out fossil-fuelled building materials for timber” – The way we build must fundamentally shift to harmonise with tree and carbon cycles in order to realise the Timber Revolution.

“Timber is being abused” says architect Hermann Kaufmann – Sloppiness and misinformation are threatening to prevent large-scale wood construction from reaching its full potential, argues Hermann Kaufmann – the “grandfather of mass timber”.

Fourteen homes where exposed cross-laminated timber creates cosy interiors – Our latest lookbook features cross-laminated timberinteriors, including a colourful German vacation home and a tenement-style housing development in Edinburgh.

Ölzbündt housing shows that “criticism of the longevity of wooden buildings is unfounded” – The first of our Timber Revolution case studies looks at an innovative, early example of mass timber, multi-storey housing designed by Austrian studio HK Architekten in the 1990s.