Over the last twenty years we have become accustomed to radical changes in architecture that have forged the way to new interpretations of materials, often attributing them with a determinant role in the achievement of a design. This has resulted in both a revaluing, and possibly an overvaluing of an architectural aspect that is absolutely essential today, but that had been previously forgotten: the use of stone.

The comparison between the current panorama and the recent past is striking. Although the decades of the mid-20th century did not suffer from a lack of examples, this material’s role in a more general context remained marginal for a long time, to such an extent that there was some concern about the irreparable loss of old trades that today are on their way to extinction... [+]