Building to Teach: 15 Schools That Explore Timber as a Primary Material

Building to Teach: 15 Schools That Explore Timber as a Primary Material

Over the past decades, timber has expanded its presence in contemporary architecture—driven both by the development of new construction technologies and by the rediscovery of traditional building techniques, all with a focus on lower-impact environmental solutions. Schools are among the building types that best reflect this movement: it is in these environments that the environmental, constructive, and sensory qualities of timber find particularly fertile ground.