During this seminar The New Stone Age, the idea that innovation always depends on new, complex or highly processed materials is challenged. By looking at natural stone’s strength, local origin and long lifespan, the seminar explores how existing, regional, material resources can become relevant again in response to today’s climate and resource challenges.
Can we build with structural stone again in the Netherlands? The New Stone Age explores the growing international movement of building structurally with stone as part of a more resource-conscious, low-carbon and long-term building practice. Despite its long history and structural capacity, stone has largely been reduced to surface, ornament and historical reference in contemporary construction.
The theme raises questions of extraction, transport, standardisation, structural use and reuse. It opens up reflections on what knowledge and decisions are needed to use materials with greater care and responsibility, pointing towards a building culture where the connection between material, place, resource and lifespan plays a more important role.
Come hear from experts GROUPWORK, Webb Yates Engineers, Bamberger Natursteinwerk, The Stonemasonry Company en WYSWYG/ARCHITECTURE. Moderated by LMNL and Anna Zan, introduction by Saskia van Stein.
Read more about the project New Age of Stone here. Admission to the event costs 12.50 EUR (a ticket for the lecture also grants access to the exhibition). The language of the event is English.
Program
3:30pm Visit exhibition SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT / 4:30pm Program with contributions by: GROUPWORK (UK), Webb Yates Engineers (UK), The Stonemasonry Company (UK), Bamberger Natursteinwerk (Germany), WYSWYG/ARCHITECTURE (France), Studio Anna Zan (Netherlands), LMNL office (Netherlands) / 6:20pm Discussion and conclusion / 6:30pm End
