Stone's richness of texture, colour and finish cannot be found in other materials; it is sensuous to touch, striking to the eye and pleasing to the soul. Malcolm Holzman's STONEWORK demonstrates that the application of stone can still result in architecture unlike that created from other materials, and that it can be of more interest today than it has been in the recent past. His objective is to raise public awareness about the material and to influence architects to redirect their attention to stone.
Stone is not a vanishing resource, rather the opposite is true. However, making architecture with this material often requires putting aside accepted strictures and finding a means to work with, and understand, its physical qualities.
STONEWORK features vignettes about observing antiquities as well as commonplace structures, and about manufacturing stone and making buildings. STONEWORK focuses on the role stone can play in making exceptional architecture.
Working on the principle that the continued evolution of stone buildings will lead to architecture possessing a full and consistent meaning for our times, Malcolm Holzman strives to take advantage of current methods for fabrication and installation - along with reinvigorated existing ones.
The Author
Malcolm Holzman, FAIA, is one of the founding partners of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. During three decades of practice he has designed a wide variety of notable public buildings in 25 states across the United States of America. Holzman's advocacy of architectural excellence extends to his participation in international conferences, lectures and teaching. He has held endowed chairs of architecture at Yale University, the University of Wisconsin, Ball State University and the University of Texas. In recognition of his advancement of architecture and urbanism over a sustained period of time, he received the Pratt Institute Distinguished Alumni Award and will receive the 2001 Gold Medal from the Tau Sigma Delta, the honour society of architecture and the allied arts. He publishes regularly as the American contributor to the Art Book and is a member of the editorial board of the Mac Journal of the Mackintosh School of Architecture.publiarq.com
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