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The lumber industry has long supplied the raw material for civilization — framing homes, shaping skylines, furnishing interiors. But raw material alone doesn’t drive innovation. That requires designers, architects, and engineers who understand wood deeply enough to push it in new directions. Student design competitions are one of the most direct ways the industry invests […] The post Building Tomorrow’s Architects: Why Student Design Competitions Matter for the Lumber Industry appeared first on NELMA.

For a siding style rooted in practicality — wide boards nailed to barn frames, with narrow strips sealing the gaps against a New England winter — board and batten has had a remarkable second act. After decades as a footnote in residential exterior design, it’s showing up on new construction across the country, on Pinterest […] The post Board & Batten Siding — Eastern White Pine Manufacturers Should Be Paying Attention appeared first on NELMA.

For a siding style rooted in practicality — wide boards nailed to barn frames, with narrow strips sealing the gaps against a New England winter — board and batten has had a remarkable second act. After decades as a footnote in residential exterior design, it’s showing up on new construction across the country, on Pinterest […] The post Board & Batten Siding — Eastern White Pine Manufacturers Should Be Paying Attention appeared first on NELMA.

Over a century ago, a group of architects gathered at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to judge a design competition for something deceptively simple: a beautiful American house built entirely from white pine, priced at $12,500. The resulting monograph — Volume III, Number 4 of the White Pine Series of Architectural […] The post A 1917 White Pine monograph has 2.4K reads — nearly triple our next most popular issue. appeared first on NELMA.

In 1915, the White Pine Bureau did something most industries wouldn’t think to do for another century: they hired a respected architectural editor, put serious money behind a beautifully produced publication, and sent it — free — to nearly 10,000 architects across America. That publication was the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs. And it […] The post The White Pine Monographs: 110 Years of the Lumber Industry’s Smartest Marketing Move appeared first on NELMA.

New Hampshire Takes a Stand for American Lumber A new Senate bill is putting SPFs on the specification sheet. Here’s what the grading debate is really about — and what it means for members and builders. The wood on both sides of the border is nearly identical. The label is not. That distinction has cost […] The post The Lowercase “s” That Changed Everything: What NH’s Bill 529: means for NELMA members appeared first on NELMA.

Close your eyes. Picture a cabin in the woods. There’s a version of that cabin that lives in everyone’s imagination — raw-hewn logs, a stone fireplace, the smell of pine in the air. But the cabin has evolved. Today’s most compelling retreats pair that same love of the natural world with clean lines, open floor […] The post An Evolution and Elevation of The Classic Cabin appeared first on NELMA.

The family compound is one of architecture’s most enduring forms — not a building type so much as a philosophy of settlement. It says: we are bound to one another, and the land around us should reflect that. From the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port to the Rockefeller Great Camps of the Adirondacks, the compound […] The post Built Together: Wood and the Architecture of the Family Compound appeared first on NELMA.

Casa CLO by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes is conceived as a lightweight timber house that threads domestic life into a pine forest on the coast of Tarragona, Spain, stepping down a steep, rocky plot with access from the lowest point. Wood is central not just as a finish, but as the project’s structural strategy. The architects […] The post Inspired by pine forests. appeared first on NELMA.

Cabin Fever is Hello Wood’s annual design-build summer school and festival, where students and young designers learn by making full-scale architecture together. In 2025 (powered by VELUX), it ran from 23–31 July 2025 in Česká Kamenice, Czechia, on the grounds of a former textile factory and wartime labor camp, using cabins and installations to explore […] The post Cabin Fever appeared first on NELMA.