Look at any vernacular building and the roof tells you the weather before anybody mentions it. Here are eleven of the things a roof is arguing with.
1. The Steep…
The useful habit when standing in an unfamiliar square is to look at what faces onto it, because the buildings around the edge record who wanted the space and what…
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There is a wall in Cusco that tourists queue to photograph because of one stone in it, which has twelve angles and fits its neighbours on every one of…
The question worth asking at the entrance to any tunnel is what problem made digging cheaper than going around. Here are seventeen, and the answers.
1. Pedestrian River Tunnels
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These are working burial grounds and should be treated as such. They are also, by design, significant works of landscape architecture and among the quietest and best-planted spaces in the…
The logic is consistent wherever it appears. Put the settlement on ground that is hard to attack, above the bad air of the valley floor, and on rock that would…