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 ...

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 ...

Faux Brick Stencils are made from poly-coated fiberboard and consist of a mortar joint with the brick, stone or tile cut-out. Available in adhesive and non-adhesive forms For new and existing concrete ...

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 ...

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...

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 ...