If you have leftover bricks around, you can DIY your own custom hearth that is sure to make your fireplace or wood stove look ...

A German wood-brick system can raise a house shell in days, challenging traditional concrete and masonry methods.

The clay brick sector is undergoing a transformation driven by environmental imperatives and resource constraints. Traditional brick production consumes vast quantities of virgin clay, requires energy ...

Bricks are old building materials (~ 8000 BC for mudbricks and ~ 3000 BC for burnt bricks, Mesopotamia 1,2) and they are still in use nowadays, mostly for facades and walls between structural concrete ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder recently conducted an experiment that sounds almost like a kids' science project: They added colonies of green bacteria to a mix of sand and ...

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

Bricks are versatile and long-lasting building materials that combine technical and aesthetic qualities. In a variety of shapes, dimensions, textures, and colors –depending on the manufacturing ...

CU Boulder researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings with help from some of the tiniest contractors out there. "We already use biological materials in our ...

In 1971 Louis Kahn, an American architect, was giving a masterclass at the University of Pennsylvania. In the course of a passage about how architects are always informed by their materials, he ...