The hole truth: until recently, perforated bricks were relegated to behind-the-scenes roles, such as for constructing ...

In the West, bricks are almost always used to create straight, uniform walls in rectilinear buildings. India, on the other hand, has a long history of sculptural brickwork, using these basic ...

Melissa Price shines a light on the anatomy of the humble brick and a variety of bricklaying techniques in her book Brick ...

Pale bricks are arranged in a herringbone pattern on the outer walls of this compact house in north-east London that architect Zoe Chan designed and built for herself (+ slideshow). The Atelier ...

Made of earthy stuff, brick is so back in the picture of high architecture it is showing up hard-handed bricklayer tradies as brilliant craftspersons — if not as artists — whose work could endure in ...

Charleston has been named “The Best City in the South” by Southern Living magazine for the 10th year in a row; its ...

The different ways of positioning and linking the masonry elements together make it possible to design a wide variety of surfaces, generating lattices and patterns that not only influence the final ...