The book aims to provide an overview of the state of the art on the mechanics of arches and masonry structures. It is addressed to an international audience, arising from the international context in which the Associazione Edoardo Benvenuto has carried out its activities in recent years, under the honorary presidency of Jacques Heyman. The book belongs to the collection Between Mechanics and Architecture, born in 1995 from the collaboration of several renowned scholars, including Edoardo Benvenuto (P. Radelet-de Grave, E. Benvenuto (eds.), Entre Mécanique et Architecture / Between Mechanics and Architecture, Birkhäuser, Basel 1995).

Danila Aita, Orietta Pedemonte: Preface.- Stefano Bennati: In Memory of Piero Villaggio.- Salvatore DAgostino: Between Mechanics and Architecture: the Quest for the Rules of the Art.- Mario Como: Statics of Historic Masonry Structures. An Essay.- Jacques Heyman: Equilibrium Analysis.- Anna Sinopoli: A Semi-analytical Approach for Masonry Arch Dynamics.- Andrea Bacigalupo, Antonio Brencich and Luigi Gambarotta: On the Statics of the Dome of the Basilica of S. Maria Assunta in Carignano, Genoa.- Patricia Radelet-de Grave: The Panthéons Stability already questioned by Pierre Patte in 1770.- Danila Aita, Riccardo Barsotti, Stefano Bennati: Limit and Non-linear Analysis of Masonry Arches: some Contributions and Solutions.- Elio Sacco: Some Aspects in the Statics of Masonry Arches.- Massimiliano Lucchesi, Miroslav ¦ilhavý, Nicola Zani: A Direct Approach to Membrane Reinforced Bodies.- Piero Villaggio: The Thrust of an Elastic Soil of Variable Density against a Rigid Wall.- Index of Names.