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Building in Brick and Stone: The Ziggurat, the Corbel and the True Arch
Four milestones in spanning a gap and standing up, using materials strong in compression and nearly useless in tension.
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Masonry. 2 pages.
Four milestones in spanning a gap and standing up, using materials strong in compression and nearly useless in tension.
Four milestones in which builders working without any theory of statics arrived, by observation and by failure, at a structural system of remarkable efficiency.