ARCH 506, Section 2

Stone is rock transformed—a piece of earth adapted for human use as building material. Every rock holds the history of a place, the geological cycles of formation, erosion and reformation. Similarly, every building material embodies a place: the site where it was originally sourced. Through site visits, explorations of stone quarries, and a stone-carving workshop, this course will explore the concept that every building has multiple sites—its origin in material sourcing, the place of its construction and all the intermediate places where materials are processed and transformed.