MEDIEVAL BRICK-BUILDING IN THE CENTRAL ALPS*
Jürg Goll
Since Roman times, the Alpine area has been scene of all movements in brick construction—certainly only a few places, but always at high technical and aesthetic level. This is more surprising as mountain areas sufficient stone material available suitable quality for building. Obviously, materials displayed overwhelming advantages. Via mediation Church secular managerial class, latent capacity technology was able to rapidly gain foothold ideas began flow internationally. Every era discovered particular advantages use expressed them its architecture.
Archaeometry