ironically this timeless material seems to be enjoying a renaissance in modern architecture writer philip judio explores this in his illustrated book wood buildings there are many many different ways to use wood and it's used all over the world. from many different countries and many different types of building public private residential business. in germany around twenty percent of single family homes are made from wood developers are using it more and more for larger buildings too like this school near losen switzerland the company local architecture who designed the school are doing their bit to push the trend. their design won first prize in the twenty fifteen. an award that honors innovative uses forward. the. renewable resource towards the sustainable world we aiming at a thing really good material to use and for us this is an exercise to design you know design wooden building in a contemporary way. it's sustainable contemporary under tracked it but what has even more to offer in switzerland what has always been used in rural areas as the cheapest building material and using prefab wooden