This study, in collaboration with Jamie Fobert Architects, traces stone's journey from quarries to London's British Museum and Tower of London, examining collection rooms as artefacts themselves, and exploring new proposals' relationship with these materials' embedded history.

Through archival research, site visits, and interviews, the author connects quarry landscapes with their materials destination, revealing how buildings function as symposiums of the physical landscapes they culturally represent. The thesis develops two propositions:

1. A strategy of reuse with contested spolia at the British Museum
   
2. A new stone construction strategy for adjacent additions to the Tower of London.
   
   Written in Stone considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to view materials as contested entities similar to the artefacts they house. Using design, material testing, and prototyping methodologies, the work contributes to architectural discourse on employing emerging technologies to create thoughtful stone architecture that respects contested histories while conveying new practice approaches in iconic institutions.