Super-Thatch provides an up-to-the-minute overview of a quiet pan-European materials revolution, showcasing four of the highest profile thatch clad projects in Britain and on the continent.

The 64 page book comprises three sections:

Part I

The making of the University of East Anglia’s Enterprise Centre natural materials showcase by the leading sustainable architectural practice, Architype.

Part II

Three continental examples of nature visitor centres using thatch; the Wadden Sea Visitor Centre, Denmark by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekten, the Beautour biodiversity centre in Britanny, France by GuineePotin Architecte, and the Takern Naturum visitor centre, Lake Takern, Sweden by Wingardh Arkitektur. Also included is an essay on why architects are using thatch for nature visitor centres.

Part III

The Dutch origins of the return of thatch as a contemporary building material, including an essay on the Dutch Thatchers Federation and MohnBauman’s Felsoord Day Centre.

Designed with the care associated with Fourth Door Review, Super-Thatch uses special straw flecked sustainable paper stocks to support the edition’s theme.

Super-Thatch is the first in the imprints New Vernaculars architecture and sustainability culture series, which will be grown into a full series over the next years. The edition is complemented by a special thatch themed edition of Fourth Door’s Unstructured extra web-magazine.

The Super-Thatch book is complemented by an Unstructured extra edition focused on contemporary thatch.

64 pages, A4, Full Colour, £30.00 (plus £2.50/£5.00 Post and Packing (UK/Europe) With folder £35.00

There are currently very few copies of the first edition of Super-Thatch left. Please email Fourth Door about ordering.