Set in Stone: Rethinking a Timeless Material - Hardcover

Dirk Meyhoefer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3037680083 ISBN 13: 9783037680087

Publisher: Braun, 2009

Synopsis

Set in stone is well-known metaphor to describe something immortal and immov-able. Stone is considered to be an archaic and ultimate building material. In times when sustainability has become 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 its enchantment in 21st century.

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From the Back Cover

This timeless material is creating new milestones in international architecture. Stone is strong, fascinating and multifaceted; and it continues to inspire established and upcoming architects. Set in Stone impressively demonstrate the lightness and modernity of natural stone, brick and ceramic.

With the aid of photographs, plans and texts, this volume unique contemporary buildings and interiors that use stone. Architects today place stone upon stone, as people have done for centuries, though seldom has the effect been as sleekly elegant as now in the 21st century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Braun
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037680083
• ISBN 13: 9783037680087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 265