Stone in the History of Architecture

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
--A. L. Rowse, 20th century English historian

Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes renovated these rural houses from the 1700s in Chamoson, Switzerland, largely preserving their unique stone raw exterior walls and combining it with the new concrete structure, which bears the impression of the wooden planks used as a mold. Photos by Thomas Jantscher.