Suspended Stone
We live with the assumption that anything stone or brick should be directly connected to the ground. In class this week we proved that doesn’t have to be true. In […]
Tag Archives: Guastavino
Mass Innovation
Considered “the Pierce-Arrow of the American building industry,” the outdated practices of arch construction evolved to produce an organically compelling defeat of gravity in an age where manufacturing and automation were […]
Guastavino: Innovations in Tile Vaulting of the Twentieth Century
The question was asked: Is brick construction obsolete? There are so many masonry buildings in the fabric of our cities that I have trouble accepting that brick is obsolete. Within […]
Material Strategies 
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