Stories

Your digital introduction to the material world with stories about the extraction, manufacture and real-life application of your favourite materials.

Building from the ground up thumbnail
Spolia; repurposing masonry thumbnail
Tenement tiles thumbnail
Like Clockwork, Orange thumbnail
(NOT) just another brick in the wall thumbnail
From stereotomy to the digital age, new technology is central to stone engineering thumbnail
A short history of the misuse of stone in the 20th century  thumbnail
Cast iron production thumbnail
Brick bonds thumbnail
Introduction to Sandstone thumbnail
Wood Figure thumbnail
Architextures, our founding story thumbnail