Will Self

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.

English Author

Mr. T

In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.

American Actor

Dave Grohl

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

American Musician

Walter Gropius

Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

German Architect

Francisco Franco

The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: masonry and communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.

Spanish Leader

Charles Francis Richter

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.

American Scientist

J. R. Smith

Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.

American Athlete

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.

American Clergyman

Masonry implies skilled craftsmanship and is often used to appreciate fine construction work.

Craft Association

Masonry is frequently associated with historical and culturally significant structures.

Historical Buildings

Masonry is often mentioned to suggest durability and strength in buildings.

Durability Connotation

Masonry refers to the building materials themselves, highlighting their prepared state for construction.

Material Specificity

Masonry can describe the texture and appearance of a structure's surface.

Describing Texture

Masonry denotes a specialized trade and is often respected for the skill involved.

Trade Skill

Using 'masonry' in a conversation can point to a professional context within the construction industry.

Professional Term

 in an order for masonry to perform well in an earthquake you have to have enough sturdy strong wall I have all the walls connected together so we talked her through what she needed to do tear down that crooked wall and build it straight and put reinforcement over her window and door because we can't just say well

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 the Freemasons had gone from passing down the craft of masonry to more generally promoting ideals of knowledge and reason. Over time, they had grown into a semi-secret, exclusive order that included many wealthy and influential individuals, with elaborate, secret initiation rituals.

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 we force it through the urban agriculture facility, and then we resupply oxygen-enriched air. You can't actually build much on a roof, they're not designed for that. So it's on legs, so it focuses all the load on the masonry walls and the columns. It's built as a barn raising,

Natalie Jeremijenko:...

 You can sit by the fireplace and share stories. You can study together in big groups or in small ones, because the architecture sets up these opportunities. Even the construction is about building relationships. It's made of cordwood masonry,

Buildings that blend...

 For most of architectural history, heavy building materials made it difficult for tall buildings to support their own weight. To compensate, taller structures had wider, thicker masonry at the base, making them substantially more expensive.

How the world’s tallest...

 workers compensated for the tower’s minor tilt by making the next few floors taller on the southern side. But the weight of the extra masonry made that side sink even deeper. By the time they completed the seventh floor and bell chamber,

Why doesn’t the Leaning...

 and massive lifting devices far ahead of their time so revolutionary design check groundbreaking engineering check can-do attitude check but with no central support system how would he actually build it first off the masonry would

How an Amateur Built the...

 It's very famous in the crusader period that a lot of stones has the masonry marks. Whoa. So you see you this line-- Or maybe here, this one. Oh, yes, exactly this one. So this is actually the mark of somebody's chisel?

Underground Templar...

 and confined masonry, where the building acts as a whole -- walls and columns and roofs and slabs tied together to support each other -- instead of breaking off into separate members and failing.

Peter Haas: Haiti's...

 giving us something we just need to get into our own communities and start farming building our masonry electrical work just start doing for ourselves supporting and then