TIMBER FRAMING

Topics: A Rookie's Diary. Guild Notes & Comment: The New Guild. Optimal Conversion of Logs to Timbers. The Sky Pilot Suspension Bridge. Medieval Germanic Roof Structures. Guild Conference Slide Show.
Published on Dec 15, 2015.

Books: America's Covered Bridges. Bassano Del Grappa's Covered Bridge. The Sierra Nevada Barn, Continued. Medieval Germanic Roof Structures 2. Combining Tradition and Technology: a Pavilion for Cleveland Church.
Published on Sep 15, 2015.

Notes & Comment: TFG–TFBC Merger, a Virtual Roundtable. Symbolism and Ritual in Compagnonnage. Medieval Germanic Roof Structures 1. The Triple Bottom Line and the Timber Framing Business. The Other English Barn. Glimpses of Dutch Framing.
Published on Jun 15, 2015.

Books: Layout Worldwide; French Carpentry. A 19th-Century Bucks County Workbook. Building a Timber Frame Model. What was Chaussegros de Lery Worried About? Axe Culture.
Published on Mar 15, 2015.

Notes & Comment: New Guild Structure? A Little Trouble in Paradise. The Old West Church Amended. Ship's Knees of Maine. Structural-Ridge Swiss Roofs. Guild Conference Slide Show 2014 (II). A Grand Old Lady Keeps Her Hat.
Published on Dec 15, 2014.

Books: Architecture of Place. In Memoriam: Ed Levin. The Mathematical Bridge at Queens' College, Cambridge. Grading Structural Timbers, New and Old. Two Reciprocal Frame Gazebos. Guild Conference Slide Show 2014. Reflections on Embodied Energy.
Published on Sep 15, 2014.

Books: Architecture of Relationship. Split Barns of Somerset County, Pa. Chinese Covered Bridges. Best Practices for High-Performance Houses. Scribing a Post to a Rock. Resistance to Uplift and Overturning in Timber-Framed Steeples.
Published on Jun 15, 2014.

Topics: On Timber Framing, 1992. Tools: Track Saw for Timbers. A Geometrica Perspective on the Burr Truss Covered Bridge. Lost in Translation: Early Square Rule Framing in Central Vermont. Confessions of a Timber Frame Salesman. New Enclosures for Timber Frames? Documentation and Assessment Methods for Timber Structures. Earthquakes and Early Timber Frames.
Published on Mar 15, 2014.

Books: Geometric Design. Letters: Covered Bridge Loading. The Bernese Bauernhaus. Toward Effective Client Relations. Engineered Timber Connectors. Norwegian Grindbygg Construction. German Code Provisions for Mortises and Tenons Loaded in Shear.
Published on Dec 15, 2013.

Notes and comment: Whither the Guild? Capacity of Load-Bearing Housings. A Swing-Beam Barn Working Drawing. The Alexander Knight House. Wooden Houses of Istanbul. Structural Screw Technology. Reflections on Load Capacity of Historic Covered Bridges.
Published on Sep 15, 2013.

Letters: Flaunting Wealth? (An Exchange). Raising in Warsaw. The Liegender Stuhl Roof Style. Virginia Church, with Liegender. A Quaker Meetinghouse in Costa Rica.
Published on Jun 15, 2013.

Books: Complex Roof Framing. Timber Framing for the Homestead. Making Riven Pins. Traditional Log Building in Estonia. When Good Timbers Go Bad. It Takes Three to Yield One.
Published on Mar 15, 2013.

Poem: What I Want to Remember. Books: Repair and Conservation. Guild Conference Slide Shows 2012. French Hip Layout. The Trusses of Abbey San Domenico. The Triple-Bypass Tying Joint.
Published on Dec 15, 2012.

Books: New England Meetinghouses. French Apprentice Tour. Covered Bridge Truss Engineering. Miscellaneous Joint Addendum. A Week at the Wapsipinicon Mill.
Published on Sep 15, 2012.

Topics: Attack of the Green Gizmos. The Shape of Structure. The Wood Lattice Bridges at Sneek. Kitchen-sink Scribe: Live-edge Timber Layout for Everyone. Freight Management and Storage of Architectural Timbers. Tying Joint Addendum.
Published on Jun 15, 2012.

Letters: Frank Baker, Robert L. (Ben) Brungraber, Thomas A. Vitanza. The Swing-beam Barn in Southern Washington County, New York. Sierra Nevada Barn Evolution II. A Tang-style Temple in Dunhuang. Wood Protection by Design.
Published on Mar 15, 2012.

Topics: Scribe Rule, Square Rule, Democracy and CNC. Sierra Nevada Barn Evolution. Covered Bridge Truss Types. Blenheim Bridge, a Remembrance. Bell Tower in the South Tyrol.
Published on Dec 15, 2011.

Books: Master's Guide to Timber Framing. The Lordship Barn and Regulating Line Technique. Timber Grading, or "Select" Timber Has Knots. The Portland Observatory. Church in the Trentino–Alto Adige. A Synagogue Roof in Poland.
Published on Sep 15, 2011.

Letters: Bending Scarfed Beams (Mack Magee). Structural Insulated Panels: An Exchange (Chris Schwind, Adrian Jones). Restoring Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Parmaribo. Island Beauty. Why Are We Still Pushing Polygons? Wood Decay and Protection. Wooden Jewel of the Langhe.
Published on Jun 15, 2011.

Guild Notes & Comment: Minneapolis. Basic Beam Sizing. Beam Calculator Software Review. Are SIPs Necessary? Elementary Building Geometry. New Hope Methodist Church. Enclosing the Timber Frame.
Published on Mar 15, 2011.