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Stones had been the most important material from humans to build space of protection and also decorative structure. This material is very easy to find, because proceed to the nature and represent the platform of our land. It also was the first floor and roof of the first human shelter on earth. When the society evolve their structures also was more important, bigger and complex; so the important of the stones had a new performance inside the art and construction; it used for represent religious and cultural things by use forming straight lines like monolithic structure and columns, for security and protection on walls and castles and megalithic support to the most important structure at all time like pyramids in Egypt and the mausoleums in Athens. The advantage of the stones is their durability, adaptability to structural treatment and it can be used in modern structure with their natural state. That knowledge was very important because the human have been learning how to use more properly and less expensive way the use of the stone. Nowadays the cheapest stonework is when not matter the size it’s put one on another and bounded, this procedure is used to build walls and certain columns. Other way to manage the stone is convert these one on rectangular cut blocks that defines an entablature (Ashlars masonry) which is more expensive and laborious than rubbles; the stone been cutting geometrically is use for support of construction, for example Egyptian’s pyramids. Also Egyptian’s ancient culture use the stone for building roofs and European’s culture on Christian basilicas, they determinate some disadvantages on the use of the stone; this kind of roofs needed so many columns that were pretty expensive and hard to work with, so that’s why wood started to have a role in architecture; also It’s hard to use with angles, because requires more support and it’s weak to tension. Today we know a very important kind of material which has the same or more advantages aspects and more cheaply than stone, so nowadays it’s use for ornamentation in façade and walls.