Naujasis miestų medinės architektūros amžius
New Age of the Wooden Architecture in the Cities

Summary/Abstract: The prevalence, perspectives and forms of wooden architecture in Lithuanian cities are analyzed. The most common wooden buildings and their features are discussed. Examples of architecture in other countries reveal wooden construction aspects which respond to many needs of human existence and the quality of the environment. Aspiration to create a sustainable, healthy, comfortable, and reasonable anthropogenic environment makes us think about what we are using for construction of contemporary buildings and why. New wooden buildings demonstrate important and very actual tendencies of the world architecture which are noticeable in Lithuania too. The growth of the popularity of wooden buildings indicates the rebirth of wooden architecture in the cities, a new peculiar age of wooden architecture.

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