Contemporary Brick Buildings
80Enter your email address here and we will notify you when copies become available:
Tour the world and discover the most exciting and innovative brick buildings! This volume features new talents as well as established stars and showcases the use of brick across diverse buildings, from Tate Modern Switch House in London by Herzog & De Meuron to Studio Libeskind’s Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names in Amsterdam.
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
Contemporary Brick Buildings
80Brick by Brick
The world’s most innovative brick buildings
Of all building materials in the world, brick is one of the most enduring and ubiquitous. Traces of brickmaking date back to 7500 BC and fired brick first made its appearance in about 3500 BC. Since then, the trusty brick has shown amazing resilience and remains one of the mainstays of contemporary architecture. Rooted in tradition in countries as different as China and the Netherlands, it is inexpensive, flexible in use, and can also be ecologically fabricated.
This comprehensive volume tours the world to cover the most exciting and innovative brick buildings of the past 35 years, from Paraguay to New Zealand. True to all TASCHEN architecture tomes, it includes new talents like Sanchit Arora from RENESA as well as established starchitects such as Renzo Piano and Peter Zumthor. Featured buildings showcase the variety of brick applications across cultural, domestic, infrastructure, and leisure spaces, including Tate Modern Switch House in London by Herzog & de Meuron, D’Houndt + Bajart’s Boa School Restaurant in Lille-Lomme, and MASS Design’s Maternity Waiting Village in Kasungu, Malawi.
The author
Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His TASCHEN books include the Homes for Our Time series and monographs on numerous major architects, including Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid.
Contemporary Brick Buildings
Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 3.74 kg, 592 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-9259-8
Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)No reviews have been posted for this item yet. Be the first to rate this product.