Masonry Design

In designing and assembling a masonry building, the engineering work can provide helpful insight which is simple and powerful.   For example...

I've just finished a closet in a masonry building I'm making. A closet allows me to try certain steps, before committing such steps ...

 I awoke to a beautiful 15 inches of fresh powder.  I took a few pictures of these masonry buildings covered in snow.  The domes, arches, ca...

Here are the basic steps to assemble a first frequency truncated icosahedron from 'pent' and 'hex' concrete block, as provid...

  This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1660075 ("Topological interlocking manu...