Bricks Now & Then: The Oldest Man-Made Building Material

by Chris Van Uffelen

Book Overview

Bricks are the only non-natural building material that can look back at several thousand years of history. And as Mies van der Rhohe stated: "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins". Buildings made of this fabric from very different epochs and cultures all over the world are always astonishing, and the world's best architects have explored the qualities of brickwork. A key characteristic for its success since...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3037682515
• ISBN13: 9783037682517
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Braun Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 10.9"