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Constructing correctly in wood: new insights into timber technology approaches through purist and liberalist schools of thought.
Conventionally, technology-based articles focus on methods by which architects and
engineers designed and built to present new methods, materials to evidence novelty in
technical terms. This paper does not do that. Instead, through a current overview of past and
present timber practices, it will present a new cultural perspective by looking at timber
technology from purist and liberalist approaches. Indicating a moralistic sensibility of what
"constructing correctly" in wood means to them, with these two attitudes implying inherent
values, this paper seeks to project a new cultural dimension on technology. More
importantly, the approaches convincingly reflects our relationship with digital technology, as
timber culture and tradition come to terms with the inevitability of the digital age