Monumental: Great Buildings of the World Through the Hands and Eyes of a Stonemason
A stonemason who has restored Angkor Wat and Venetian churches writes about Lalibela, Great Zimbabwe and Venice from the position of whoever cut the stone.
A working stonemason who has restored Angkor Wat and Venetian churches writes about the great buildings from the position of whoever cut the stone, taking in Lalibela, Great Zimbabwe and Venice. He is attentive to tools, joints and weathering, and the effect is to make famous monuments legible as accumulated labour rather than as finished images.
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Tyler Cowen
An engaging book about the beauties of stonemasonry, with case studies of Venice, Angkor Wat, Lalibela, Zimbabwe and other locales.
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