The alluring power of timber transcends time and place. a wooden house can be a grand getaway in the countryside, but it can also be a modernist mansion or a row house in a big city. and increasingly, it can be a skyscraper, too. humans have been building homes from wood for thousands of years, and today, timber is increasingly becoming a viable alternative to steel and concrete. amid what some architects are calling the timber revolution, out of the woods explores how contemporary architects are working with this fundamental material.