Stereotomy or 'Trait', is the fundamental mental skill of envisioning in 3D, it's what makes an individual who has mastered it a true master builder.
The purpose of the Professional School of Practical Stereotomy is, after apprenticeship, the training of elite craftsmen. This is a school for construction design arts where it counts among its pupils, from all points of North America and even from abroad, distinguished contractors in carpentry and timber framing, public construction, well-respected foremen, architects, and numerous craftsmen, whose gratitude and recognition were always one of the best rewards. This Professional Element (Art du Trait), called upon today to render so much service to the industry, cultivates good design by teaching practical ways to seek all that one can give to work, to insure that the solution to each problem is rational and produces, in construction, a solid and well-thought-out execution. The pupil at the School starts with the elementary study of joinery, essential to any work; then he draws his first scale drawings, creates a scale model; then, with the same data, realizes the design, in life size, on a building site; thus, while working, he studies the various combinations containing all that is necessary for construction.
To improve the architectural designs of carpentry and masonry through the teaching and training of practical stereotomy to elite craftsmen and architects.
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- Online practical stereotomy courses worldwide
- Practical stereotomy workshops across North America and Europe
