Balancing at the edge of extinction or the nuances of urban wooden architecture

Timber used to be one of the key building materials in Lithuania up to the middle of the 20th century. Due to the natural conditions that haw developed here over millennia and the ample forests, wood has been successfully used noi onlv in building village cabins but also in urban archiecture as a cheap local material Timber ako used ro be successfully exported, which had various consequence later on. Today Lithuania came as the Scandinavian countries, is still being called a land оf wood culture, although over its fifty years of Soviet occupation, among other traditional crafts the skill to build and appropriately maintain traditional wooden buildings has died out. There are many reasons why Kaunas and many other Lithuanian cities did not maintain the wooden urban architecture that used to encapsulate their unique load character. Unfortunately, it is often due to a lack of education and understanding and wavering political will also from financial perspective, it is much more profitable to acquire land under an old wooden house and ledevelop it with buildings that are more economically viable rather than investing into the sustainable development of the ciiy. Future treatment of wooden houses, more and more often staring at the street empty-windowed. will depend on the highest-level heritage politics, as well аs the owners of these hous. Studying modern examples elsewhere would be advisable. In this case Kaunas in particular is perhaps too cramped, but after looking over the architectural creation of the past year in Lithuania, one easily nonces the Rupert an and education centre, the refurbishment of the former house of the orthodox pope, as well as the "Sea Sand. Wind' villas in Juodkrantė, The Nida art colony and other modern examples. [...]Menotyros katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta