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In recent years, structural stone in buildings has experienced a renaissance. This book offers a critical look at what the choice of stone is doing to contemporary architecture, in terms of both practice and form. Building in Stone Today takes observations of professionals at work – architects, engineers, quarriers, builders but also clients and their advisors – as its point of departure. The themes it addresses are stone’s perceived novelty as a modern building material; the politics of its provenance; the logic of its supply; the expertise it calls upon; the labour involved in its extraction and assembly; its haptic qualities; and finally, its capacity to last. Assembling voices and commentaries from Spain, Switzerland and England, the book adopts a storytelling format. Drawing on several case studies, it places everyday situations in working with stone at its centre. Illustrated with analogue photographs by the author.
Pages: 304
Language: English
17 × 24 cm
120 col. ill.
Publication: 17 Aug 2026
ISBN 978-3-0356-2993-4
Publication: 17 Aug 2026
ISBN 978-3-0356-2994-1
Natália Peťková is a Zurich-based architect and researcher, graduated from the University of Cambridge (MPhil Architecture & Urban Design) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (Master Territoires, Espaces et Sociétés).