Thank you to Sean Adcock for allowing us to provide this content. Per Sean, there must therefore be tens of thousands of miles of “random” wall and as such “random” becomes a bit of a catch all, it hardly does the variation justice.
Category: Master Classes
Master Class: Throughs
Master Class: LES CABANES aka “VILLAGE DES BORIES”, AT GORDES, VAUCLUSE
Master Class: Giren
Master Class: The Cleits of St. Kilda
The St Kilda island group lies about 40 miles west of the Hebridean island of North Uist. Village Bay, on the southeast corner of Hirta, the largest island, has a wealth of stonework. The head dyke quite clearly separates the arable ground from the hill pasture. The other main feature is the line of the…
Master Class: The Kielder Wave Chamber
In 1997 when I was wandering the British Isles researching “Dry Stone Walling” I stumbled across a strange structure in Kielder forest, a 4m tall corbelled dry stone building housing a camera obscura, built as part of Visual Arts UK 1996 in the North of England, the same project that was the genesis of Goldsworthy’s…
Master Class: Asfontylitis: A Cycladic settlement in dry-stone on the island of Amorgos and the development of alternative forms of tourism
In Amorgos, the easternmost island of the Cyclades, on a crest at 262 metres above sea level, to the north-east of Hora and to the south-west of Aegiali, lies Asfontylitisi, a settlement used only at intervals, wholly built in dry stone (Fig.1). One could say that Asfontylitis is not really a settlement but rather a…
Master Class: Investigation of bulging, bursting and toppling in dry-stone retaining walls
There are estimated to be 9000 km of dry-stone retaining structures in the UK lining the road and rail network[1], mostly dating to the 19th and 20th centuries. Though poorly constructed walls presumably collapsed shortly after their construction, the majority of walls have remained perfectly stable over decades of usually steadily increasing loading and weathering…
