Preface

The idea of a book on masonry structures arises from the privileged context in which the Associazione Edoardo Benvenuto has carried out its activities in recent years. In fact the Associazione has been able to count on the participation of scholars of international prestige to its research and editorial initiatives, under the honorary presidency of Jacques Heyman. The book belongs to the series Between Mechanics and Architecture, born in 1995 from the collaboration of several internationally renowned scholars, including Edoardo Benvenuto. The first book in the series was Entre Mécanique et Architecture/Between Mechanics and Architecture, edited by Patricia Radelet-de Grave and Edoardo Benvenuto (Birkhäuser 1995).