The recent appointment of Roger Scruton as chair of the Building Beautiful Commission has reopened the argument about the use of traditional styles and materials within architecture. With a call to ...

When one hears the term masonry architecture, digital fabrication and automated construction processes are probably not the first ideas to come to mind. By its very nature, the architecture produced ...

In the image below, a material is created and an image file selected for it. There is nothing wrong with this early on, while material selection is still fluid. However, at some point the materials ...

Load-bearing masonry isn’t exactly novel—stereotomic construction spans continents, cultures, and epochs. Despite stone’s ubiquity—throughout history and as a resource—steel and reinforced concrete ...