André Bloc, sculpture-habitacle 2, Meudon, Paris, France 1964

Photo Source: Seiser+Seiser 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/6776641123/in/photostream/

Text Embossed Brick, Toronto Canada

The following photo was sent to me by a friend in Toronto Ontario Canada. The brick is a part of the exterior wall of her house built circa 1900.

Brick Glazing Samples

I'm working on a project where I've designed embossed images in the surface of glazed bricks. This is my preliminary glazing sample work (on 1/3rd scale mini-bricks).


CONCEPT MODEL


GLAZING SAMPLES


SAMPLE EMBOSSED BRICK

Caruso St.John, Brick House, London, 2001-2005

Architect's Website: www.carusostjohn.com

Every time I see this project, I remember why I'm learning to build buildings.

There is no facade/exterior on this project; the space was squeezed between two existing buildings on a shard of land, the entry is through one of those buildings.

Glazed Brick* Artwork - The Lairage, Ponteland, England, 2006

* I realize these are tiles, but for all intensive purposes this process could be done on glazed brick.

Artist's Website: www.cumbrianblues.com

Description of the commission:

"The site was the old lairage the place where sheep and cattle were rested after travelling to market and before their sale.

The new building site was separated from the (still functioning) abattoir by a high brick wall. I thought it appropriate that the new residents of the site were reminded of the older ones. I was also very interested to explore how viewers would respond to life size cows and sheep in printed blue on porcelain – we are used to them being miniaturized and domestic in scale featuring on our printed tableware…."

Brick Rowhouses - Halifax, Canada - circa 1910

Halifax has a significant history of wood frame and shingle residential buildings where 98% of houses are wood (a typical example can be seen on the right in first photo). This small group of brick rowhouses are an anomaly in the city, but they are completed in the same style as the surrounding houses of the period, demonstrating the versatility of brick masonry.

As a group the brick houses appear to be almost identical, but upon closer view each has particular details that make it unique and reveal a rich layer of craftsmanship in the architecture and brickwork.