Join us for the Yestermorrow Speaker Series!
Stone Masonry in the Italian Alps
Wednesday, Sept 12
7:00 PM
Savoy Theater, 26 Main St Montpelier VT
Explore the Italian Alps through the ancient art of hands-on stone masonry. Thea Alvin and Mac Rood of Yestermorrow Design/Build School will take the audience on a visual...
This video montage follows the one-week Rumford Masonry Fireplace Design/Build course at Yestermorrow in October 2010. The class worked together to build a Rumford style fireplace for a homeowner in Waitsfield, Vermont during this five-day class focused on teaching homeowners with no prior masonry experience how to create their own fireplace.
For three weeks in July and August, Yestermorrow has been conducting the first of what is planned to be an annual course in the Ossola Valley of northern Italy. Yestermorrow is collaborating with the Canova Association, an organization dedicated to the appreciation and preservation of vernacular stone architecture in this region of the Alps...
We're excited about a new course this summer offered by longtime instructor Mac Rood. We'll be bringing a group of up to 15 students to the abandoned village of Ghesc in the northern mountains of Italy.This three week course will offer students experience in preservation, restoration, and adaptive re-use of historic vernacular masonry buildings in...
