Abstract
Rock is the basic building material of the earth’s crust and the original building material used by man to serve as protection from the severe ice age and post-ice age raw climate; shelters were made of assembled field stones to form a basic house. Stone was later elaborately shaped to satisfy man’s artistic expression.
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Winkler, E.M. (1997). Rock and Stone. In: Stone in Architecture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10070-7_1
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