ha sure they do a great job. but we have to come to our senses and recognize that we're just not able to build anything equivalent, considering limitations they faced at that time. And i don't see that being solved anytime soon.
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I mean in Boston a lot of very beautiful stonework was being done just 120-140 years ago. Stonecutting by hand is not really an industry in the US like it was back then, with generations of talent available at all times
Europe is another level though. Walking around you are regularly reminded of what people achieved before the Industrial Revolution.
Yes you could have all the money in the world and probably still have a hard time finding the people who know how to build that and do it in a beautiful way
absolutely, that's my point, in particular without cheap energy and in a subsistence economy with little surplus. How do you get stone extracted from the quarry and then brought on site and then cut to the millimeter and then elevated and attached in an exact fit? How do you manage mutli generational team and architects to do something like that? These freaking cathedrals are still here 900 years later, that's just crazy!
Watkins Glen state park in NY has an incredible stone trail that was built as a make work project during the depression.
Maybe we’ll get back to stone work in America in Q3 when the recession kicks in…
