Four Mississippi State junior architecture students are first place award winners in a national concrete masonry competition ... how each of these systems combines the permanence of masonry into an ...

Many midcentury aficionados are familiar with the Case Study Houses sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine ... designs that utilized exposed concrete and masonry exclusively in the construction ...

Architectural Digest travels to Scottsdale, Arizona, to tour Taliesin West—Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic desert laboratory and winter home. Designed as a seasonal escape from the brutal Wisconsin ...

While the iconic American architect designed more than 1,000 buildings, this private home situated over an active waterfall ...

Architects have long relied on “hard” materials such as masonry ... into architecture begins with a building’s composition. In the past 20 years, engineers have developed organic ...

The blocks, which meet the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards, were made using an organic ... masonry will match and exceed the capabilities of portland cement-based concrete.

Typically hidden behind plasterboard, blockwork is a common form of masonry ... Exposed concrete blocks contribute to the industrial aesthetic of the Maracanã House, which Brazilian architecture ...

Nowadays, cyclopean concrete, also known as cyclopean cement, is the hybridization of these ancient techniques with modern building resources. The key difference between cyclopean concrete and ...

the mining of new material to serve as aggregate is not necessary.” + Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World Competition + RPI’s Masters of Architecture ...

Pictured at the National Concrete Masonry Association 2019 Midyear Meeting in Seattle, Washington, are (left to right) MSU Associate Professor of Architecture Jacob A. Gines; MSU architecture juniors ...