The wood-framed pavilion at the center of Wrightwood 659’s "American Framing" exhibition, back stateside after its run at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, fills nearly every inch of the building ...

Mass-produced precast concrete homes could replace wood framing by offering durable, storm-resistant, and affordable housing ...

In those balloon-framed homes, studs ran from the foundation to the roof, a long open space that channeled flames up the full length of a wall in a burning building. Modern wood framing interrupts ...

The earliest is of a Chicago warehouse, circa 1832, designed by George Washington Snow, who was considered the inventor of “balloon framing,” the process of building with a series of vertical ...

Other challenges include the material and structural considerations unique to podium design. Typically, Type V wood-framed towers utilize platform framing, a type of framing in which the joists ...