Monumental
William Collins (Verlag)
978-0-00-865882-3 (ISBN)
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Across the world and across time, the buildings of the gods and of royalty have tended to be made of stone, towering over the homes of us lesser beings who have had to make do with wood or brick. When civilisations create beauty that they wish to last, it is to stone they turn, crossing oceans in search of varying hues and textures, hauling hundreds of tons across thousands of kilometres.
Stonemason and conservator Simon Warrack has worked in more than thirty different countries and with all the major religions, and despite this immense cultural diversity, has found a communality through stone – a desire to conserve and maintain it that has spanned continents, cultures and millennia. In this book, Simon explores ten different places where he has learnt and plied his trade, preserving culturally and historically significant monuments for generations to come. This is the story of the beauty of stone.
Simon Warrack is a British born stone conservation consultant based in Italy. He received a degree in Renaissance History from the University of Warwick and then having decided to work in the field of conservation he attended the Building Crafts Training School in London. Following a four-year apprenticeship at Canterbury Cathedral where he was responsible for the working drawings for the West façade and North West Tower he moved to Venice where he attended the San Servolo Course (UNESCO) and the ICCROM/UNESCO Stone Conservation Course. Since then, he has worked on various monuments around the world, including the Ducal Palace, the Church of Notre-Dame d’Etampes, the Cathedral of Bourges, the Trevi Fountain, Trajan’s Markets, Angkor Wat and the Temple of the Sun at Ed Dur in the Emirate of Umm al Quwain in the United Arab Emirates. He has just returned from working on the World Heritage Site at Great Zimbabwe.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 270 g |
| Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| Technik ► Bauwesen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-00-865882-X / 000865882X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-865882-3 / 9780008658823 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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