Set in Stone: Rethinking a Timless Material

Type

Book

Authors

Dirk Meyhoefer

ISBN 10

3037680083

ISBN 13

9783037680087

Tags

Architecture, Methods & Materials

Description

Set in stone is well-known metaphor to describe something immortal and immovable. Stone is considered to be an archaic and ultimate building material. In times when sustainability has ecome the keyword of climate-adapted construction, stone architecture is gaining more and more attention. This volume will provide an updated overview of stone architecture, 60 projects, from all around the world: whether cast stone, marble or bricks ? the reader takes part in a fascinating trip, discovering buildings, which are not dematerialized, not fashionably transparent, but are standing in a millennia old tradition of architecture, which has not lost - from Amzon

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