This course explores stereotomy as method and process for conceptualizing and materializing space and form. We begin by reading theories of stereotomy by thinkers like Semper, Evans, and Lucan. Concurrently, we as well as explore methods of material transformation of earth (shaping), stone (carving), and concrete (casting) across building cultures. This overview culminates in a short, 1,000-word paper. For the final two-thirds of the course, each student embarks on their own journey into stereotomy. Using their studio design projects as subjects, we undertake a series of exercises that explore material transformation as a symbiotic and synthetic phenomenon to tectonic thinking.