Architecture of Defense

Harvard GSD

Students will research the extraction of stone, the production of masonry units, and their tectonic language. Medieval cryptographic languages and diagrams will be studied as a means to invent new cryptographic languages for tectonic and construction operations. Students will develop a historical understanding of defensible and sacred architecture to inform new strategies in masonry, security, and sacred programming. Quarry visits will include open-air granite operations in Barre, Vermont,…