This is a guest post from Antonina of OpenBuildings - a community-driven and openly editable encyclopaedia of buildings from around the world.
Do you think brick is trivial and a thing of the past? Think twice! It is true up until a century ago brick was predominantly associated with the vernacular architecture of England’s industrial north. With very few notable exceptions like woderful Uruguay-born architect and engineer Eladio Dieste, most architects over the last two centuries do not seem to have discovered any excitement in experimenting with brick. These days however brick has been making its way back into the spotlight of architectural stardom as computer-aided parametric design’s new love.
Eladio Dieste: Cristo Obrero Church
image: Rafael Oliveira on flickr
Randic Turato Architects: Pope John Paul II Hall
image: Robert Leš
Lyons Architecture: Mornington Nursing Home
image: John Gollings & Roger Du Buisson
Wang Shu/Amateur Architecture Studio: Ningbo Historic Museum
image: Iwan Baan
Mass Studies & Slade Architecture: Pixel House
image: Yong Kwan Kim
Hans Jorg Goritz Architektur: National Parliament Principality of Liechtenstein
image: Jürg Zürcher
Anagram Architects: South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre
image: Anagram Architects
Bearth & Deplazes with Gramazio & Kohler: Vineyard Estate Gantenbein
image: Ralph Feiner
MAB architecture: Plinthos
image: MAB Architecture
SHoP Architects: 290 Mulberry
image: SHoP Architects
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David J Lowe October 29, 2011
The Cristo Obrero Church is beautiful but at first glance, I thought it was a climbing wall (now colourful and intricately designed climbing walls would be cool!). Any design that makes people stop and engage with it is worth creating. London needs more architecture/brickwork like this.