Terra Cotta

I too was surprised after reading this article. I’ve been to New York City once before, and having grown up in a city myself always assumed it was a hustling and bustling concrete jungle. I suppose I’ve always associated the greyscale colors of the city with concrete and asphalt, and anything that made its way to the color wheel was simply painted or made of brick or what have you. Though, after this article I find architecture of previous times far more relatable to our current day and age. Size and mass disregarded, we still build in familiar geometric systems, so why shouldn’t we use familiar materials? That is the irony really. It’s even sort of comical. Now we have all of these towering skyscrapers and colossal structures, we figure our present architectural technology is unrivaled by those of our ancestors. Yet, even history teaches us of the wonders man built hundreds of years ago. It really is reasonable that we would harvest that knowledge and continue to foster it for the growth of our homes today. I have to wonder how many more materials with an extensive history are used in the millennium era and why they aren’t more commonly mentioned.