The CLT: Material Culture Studio focused on conceptual, environmental and design implications from an emerging new building material, Cross Laminated Timber that arose out of Austria, Switzerland, and Germany in the late 1990's. Little known in North America, far less in the United States, awareness of the CLT panel has steadily been growing especially in the Cascadia Region, which stretches from northern British Columbia, to Southern Oregon to Eastern Montana. Through a rich, spatially varied program of the Seattle Center for Buddhism, the University of Washington upper level Graduate Studio investigated CLT and its design possibilities.