Take one look at Clay Chapman's masonry and you're almost certain to consider it the work of another era, when structural brick buildings were ubiquitous and attention to design and detail seemed at least equally as important as time and budget—a stark contrast to many of the veneered homes you see today. Clay's work is not a historical replication, though, and it would be a mistake to look at the homes he is building, and how he is building them, as mere novelty. These are modern homes, leveraging traditional structural masonry techniques to provide a solution for a variety of contemporary building challenges: sustainability, rising energy costs, and housing affordability.
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