Product Description: Guadua (bamboo) is a renewable natural resource that grows quickly and has outstanding environmental and aesthetic qualities. This much-anticipated sequel to Bambusa Guadua, also published by Villegas Editores, offers insight into the fascinating world of guadua's usage and practical applications in architecture, furniture, and object design...read more

Product Description: This much-anticipated sequel to Bambusa Guadua offers insight into the fascinating world of bamboo, a renewable natural resource that grows quickly, has outstanding environmental and aesthetic qualities, and practical applications in architecture, furniture, and object design...read more

Product Description: Recognizing bamboo as an ideal building material, both beautiful and functional, this guide fully explores the renewable resource known as "the poor man's wood." A highly valued tool for artists, designers, and architects in recent years, bamboo is elegantly featured through gorgeous photographs that reveal bamboo's many innovative architectural uses and highlight its starring role in furniture, handcrafts, and sculpture by Colombian designers...read more

Product Description: Exhibiting the unique qualities and functionality of this natural resource, native to Colombia, this books beautifully displays the creative structures and artifacts made of bamboo. Exponiendo las características únicas y la utilidad de este recurso natural de origen colombiana, este libro demuestra bellamente las estructuras y artefactos creativos hecho de Bambusa...read more

Product Description: When, in the dawn of the 19th century, Humboldt and Bonplant avidly toured the American surface, they included in their notes that the Quindio region in Colombia was practically covered with guadua trees. That is not surprising. The fertile, humid, well-drained soil in this zone is completely apt for these plants...read more