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Workshops & Events Schedule
2013 Dates Now Posted

Follow these links for detailed info
One-Day Design Seminar
Introductory Timber Framing
Advanced Timber Framing
Traveling Timber Framing Workshops
Workshop & Seminar Overviews

Links to other useful info

A Workshop Primer:
Tools & Lodging Info, a must read
for potential students
Natural Building Workshops
Clay Systems, Cob, Thatching

Download the
Fox Maple School Booklet
This booklet describes all of our workshops, the school site, tools and supplies you should bring to the workshop. It also includes timber framing plans of the principal structures at the school site. All of these structures were workshop projects, built by students.
To download click on the cover graphic to the left.

Stuff we do

Spring 2004 Advanced TF course project

New Posting!!!
Brittany, France
Timber Framing Summer 2013
August 3-11, 2013

Fox Maple will be returning to Europe in 2013 to conduct a workshop near the coastal town of St. Malo, in Brittany, France. This area boasts one of the richest histories and some of the finest examples of medieval French timber framing anwhere in France. 

Along with a healthy dose of hands-on timber framing experience, there will be ample time to explore some of the finest examples of medieval timber structures in the area. This promises to be another great Fox Maple workshop, so make your plans now for a summer timber framing adventure on the Brittany coast. The dates are set for August 3-11, 2013. Tuition $1,475.00. Register Now!!!

Timber Framing Workshops
at Fox Maple School 2013
The next series of Timber Framing Workshops at Fox Maple School in Maine, will begin
May 27, 2013.

There are still openings in all
Timber Framing Workshops at this time.

Spring 2013
Timber Framing Workshops

Itroductory Timber Framing
May 27-June 1, 2013. Tuition $1175

Advanced Timber Framing
June 3-8, 2013. Tuition $1175

Summer 2013
Timber Framing Workshops

Introductory Timber Framing
Sept. 2-7, 2013. Tuition $1175

Advanced Timber Framing
Sept. 9-14, 2013. Tuition $1175

Registration Form
or
For more detailed info click here

2013 Natural Building
Workshops Schedule

3 Day Natural Enclosure Systems
May 23 - 25, 2013. Tuition $675.

This 3 day workshop will precede our Spring Timber Framing courses. It will combine classroom and hands-on work with a variety of natural clay systems, giving students a good overview of the variety of practical options available to use natural clay based systems in their building projects. Wood chip clay, Straw clay, cob, clay plastering and more will be covered.
For more detailed info, click here.

Registration Form

Costa Rica 2013
Timber Framing Workshop,
Feb. 27 - March 9, 2013

This workshop is a great opportunity to learn the finer aspects of timber framing while at the same time enjoying a rich cultural experience by integrating intimately into a very special community.

In this Workshop we cover all of the finer details of timber framing just as at our school site in Maine, but also go beyond to include scribe fitting timbers to stone, and working with natural curved round logs, scribe fit, square to round, round to square, in the vernacular Japanese tradition. This is the only venue we have to teach this in a direct way. So if you want to understand a much broader depth of Timber Framing, then you should come to San Luis, Costa Rica.

The only other difference is that the temperature in Maine in February hovers around zero degrees, while in
San Luis, it is in the mid 80's.
So where do you want to be the last week of February and the first week of March this year?

Home stay lodging with local families, including all meals, is included in this workshop. Tuition $1,475
Registrater Now!

There are still openings for this workshop

Spring 2005 Advanced TF course project

Asturias, Spain Summer 2008

Patagonia, Winter 2006

Pendants, 1986

Raising bent in Costa Rica 2004

Workshop Projects

Bath House Frame at Fox Maple

Students at Fox Maple Spring 2008

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Costa Rica Timber Frame 2008