This book reveals the use of guadua in architecture and furniture and object design, explains drying and preservation with smoke, and illustrates the advances of architect Simón Vélez with the joints of this material, subjected to tensile and compressive forces. It also provides the physical tests carried out on the structure of the guadua pavilion at "Expohannover 2000" and other examples of architecture and furniture design. With texts by Ximena Londoño, Gabriel Germán Londoño, Simón Vélez, and Marcelo Villegas, this book is a valuable document for those interested in the use of new materials, and a gift for those initiated who can appreciate the infinite qualities of guadua and enjoy the incomparable aesthetics of its results.