From:
"Zea" <grits@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:02:06 GMT
Subject:
architecture and stone
Anyone here understand how architects think about stone?
I have often been curious about why they specify certain
types of stone for construction and ornamental purposes.
When there is so much to choose from, where do they get
their information, and what are the important criteria?
Can anyone point me to a book, journal or website that
an enthusiastic but very amateur carver can understand?
I guess these days, there are not many new stone buildings,
but a trip earlier this year to England and France got
me thinking about it in a different way. Now an architect
can get stone from anywhere, but in the old days they
had to use what was local. As we all know, stone varies
a lot in hardness, durability, strength, weathering etc,
so the availability of the stone must have influenced
or even decided architectural styles and methods.
Am I on the right track? Can anyone point me at resources
that will teach me more about understanding architecture
through stone?
Is there such a thing as soapstone architecture?
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