New Bamboo. Architecture and Design

Thirteen years after Bambusa Guadua, this new book updates the latest developments on the subject, reveals its use in architecture and the design of furniture and objects, explains drying and preservation with smoke, and illustrates the advances of the architect Simón Vélez with the joints in guadua subjected to traction and compression efforts. It also provides the physical tests carried out on the structure of the guadua pavilion at "Expohannover 2000" and other examples of architecture and furniture design. With texts by Ximena Londoño, Gabriel Germán Londoño, Simón Vélez and Marcelo Villegas, this book is a valuable document for those interested in the use of new materials, and a gift for those initiated who can appreciate the infinite qualities of guadua and enjoy the incomparable aesthetics of its results.