Master builder
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses".
A master builder or master mason is a central figure leading construction projects in pre-modern times (a combination of a modern expert carpenter, construction site supervisor, and architect / engineer).
Historically, the term has generally referred to "the head of a construction project in the Middle Ages or Renaissance period",[1] with an 1887 source describing the status as follows:
The term has also been applied to more broadly include "designers and builders of large-scale construction work who learned their trade in a more formal way than the builders of primitive forms in pre-technological societies... from the times of the Egyptians and Sumerians until (and in some cases beyond) the Industrial Revolution".[1] The phrase has been in use since at least 1610, when William Camden wrote in his Script error: No such module "Lang". of "those Wings in Architecture, which the great Master builders terme pteromata".[2] Later in the same work, Camden writes:
Like other trades, master builders were initially trained through lengthy apprenticeships to persons already having that status, often beginning in boyhood, and the "secrets of the Master Builders were often jealously guarded, and treated as sacred knowledge".[1] A 1926 source stated:
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b c Olga Popovic Larsen, Andy Tyas, Conceptual Structural Design: Bridging the Gap Between Architects and Engineers (2003), p. 29-30.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".