Daniels alumnus’ digital treatise on historical tall-wood structures in Toronto is published

The Mass Timber Institute based at the Daniels Faculty is pleased to announce the publication of Historical Tall-Wood Toronto, an open-source digital document authored by Daniels alumnus Ross Beardsley Wood.

Funded by the Institute, the Canadian Wood Council and Ontario WoodWorks, the publication features contributions by fellow alumnus Daniel Wong and a foreword by Professor Ted Kesik.

Historical Tall-Wood Toronto (the cover of which is pictured below) is an evidentiary database of late 19th and early 20th century vernacular brick and beam buildings that were built using the fire restrictive specifications and construction technology of Heavy Timber Mill-Construction (mill-construction) in Toronto.

The research in the publication illustrates the urban trajectories of 42 select examples of mill-construction and analyzes patterns in their development to create a morphological index of this set of buildings.

The publication’s index provides a record of architectural, urban development and sociocultural information that defines this distinct urban-vernacular building typology.

To download the document, click here. For more information on the Mass Timber Institute, including other current projects, click here.

Collage in banner and on homepage by Ross Beardsley Wood