Stone: Ancient Craft to Modern Mastery - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard Rhodes, Paul Goldberger (Foreword by)Publish date:2025-06-10Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton Architectural PressISBN-13:9781797230085ISBN-10:1797230085UPC:9781797230085Book Category:Architecture, House & Home, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Methods & Materials, Reference, ConstructionBook Topic:MasonrySize:10.10 x 8.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:2.3016Product ID:SCWSJVJJXD
Stone: Ancient Craft to Modern Mastery
In this perceptive and illustrative look at the expressive and practical use of stone throughout history, Richard Rhodes unlocks the underlying principles of this ancient material--and explains the closely guarded "Sacred Rules" of the Freemasons guild for the first time ever. The relationship between mankind and stone is elemental and deeply ingrained in us all. Stone, after all, has been the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton Architectural PressISBN-13:9781797230085ISBN-10:1797230085UPC:9781797230085Book Category:Architecture, House & Home, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Methods & Materials, Reference, ConstructionBook Topic:MasonrySize:10.10 x 8.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:2.3016Product ID:SCWSJVJJXD
A Seattle, Washington-based sculptor, stonemason, entrepreneur, and scholar of stonework worldwide, Richard Rhodes apprenticed as a stonemason in Siena, Italy, after graduate studies at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As the first non-Italian admitted into Siena's medieval masonic guild (the operative branch of the Freemasons, heirs to the cathedral builders of Europe) in 726 years,...
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