Stonemasonry or stonecraft is the creation of buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone as the primary material. Stonemasonry is the craft of shaping and arranging stones, often together with mortar and even the ancient lime mortar, to wall or cover formed structures.
A 15-storey apartment building in La Tourette (Marseille), designed by Fernand Pouillon. Constructed using the massive precut stone method.
Gobekli Tepe, early monumental Neolithic stonemasonry using flint-carved limestone columns (~9500 BCE).
12th-century stonemasonry at Angkor Wat
Diamond-wire saw in use for quarrying marble.
Massive-precut stone is a modern stonemasonry method of building with load-bearing stone. Precut stone is a DFMA construction method that uses large machine-cut dimension stone blocks with precisely defined dimensions to rapidly assemble buildings in which stone is used as a major or the sole load-bearing material.
15 Clerkenwell Close in London uses a massive-precut stone exoskeleton.
The first load-bearing stone skyscraper, 2 Rue Saint-Laurent, a 16-storey apartment building in Marseille, built from massive-precut stone in 1948.
Part of a residential complex constructed using the massive precut stone method.
Apartment buildings built from massive-precut stone.
