Memar Magazine · Publication · 2024
On Brick and Its Masons
The bricklayers of Tehran learn a bond by building it, not by reading it. A drawing sent to site without a sample panel will be built as the foreman remembers it, and he is usually right. The essay argues that the drawing should follow the panel rather than the other way round.
OutletMemar Magazine
Year2024
KindPublication
AuthorFarhad Rastgar and Mahsa Aminzadeh
OutletMemar Magazine
PublishedNovember 2024
Words2,600
FormatEssay
Note
We wrote this because the trade is ageing and almost nothing about it is written down. Memar gave us four pages and no editorial line, which is why it names the workshops. Several readers wrote to correct us on Yazd practice, and they were right.