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Complex Brick Assemblies

  1. Defne Sunguroglu

Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

DOI: 10.1002/ad.643

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Architectural Design

Architectural Design

Special Issue: Versatility and Vicissitude

Volume 78, Issue 2, pages 64–73, March/April 2008

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Sunguroglu, D. (2008), Complex Brick Assemblies. Archit Design, 78: 64–73. doi: 10.1002/ad.643

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  1. Issue published online: 6 MAR 2008
  2. Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

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Keywords:

  • Rapid Prototyping Laboratory;
  • Oslo School of Architecture;
  • Professor Steinar Killi;
  • Anatolia;
  • Egyptians;
  • Mesopotamians;
  • Romans;
  • Joseph Aspdin;
  • ‘An Improvement in the Mode of Producing An Artificial Stone’;
  • Portland cement;
  • William Aspdin;
  • Rafael Guastavino;
  • Antoni Gaudí;
  • Jaume Rossell;
  • Eladio Dieste, ADF Wool Warehouse, Juanicó, Uraguay, 1994;
  • The Cobogó;
  • the Luciano Costa House;
  • Delfim Amorim;
  • ‘cohesive systems’;
  • Cerámica Armada;
  • reinforcement and prestressing;
  • Gaussian vaults;
  • The Church of Jesus Christ the Worker in Atlántida;
  • the J Herrera Y Obes Warehouse in Montevideo harbour;
  • ventilation and shading;
  • Coimbra Boeckmann and Góis;
  • Brazilian Modernism;
  • Lucio Costa;
  • plan for Brasília;
  • Parque Guinle in Rio de Janeiro;
  • Recife;
  • Complex Brick Assemblies;
  • hyperbolic-paraboloid;
  • Anisotropy;
  • Karola Dierichs;
  • Dr Emma Johnson;
  • Centre of Biomimetric Engineering;
  • University of Reading;
  • nano-composite tissue;
  • protein-chitin fibre matrix;
  • fibre-composite;
  • Defne Sunguroglu and Karola Dierichs, Structural Behaviour and Material Make-up of an Abdominal Shell of a Lobster, London, 2007;
  • Centre of Advanced Microscopy

Abstract

Are bricks passé? Or is the contemporary world just failing to realise the innate possibilities of this ancient material? Eladio Dieste once ardently stated that brick is ‘a material with unlimited possibilities, almost completely ignored by modern technology.’1 Dieste's careful inclusion of the word ‘almost’ here seems to suggest that he suspected some exceptions to the rule – that there may have been some previously untold modern technological dabblings with brick. With this in mind, Defne Sunguroglu acknowledges the innovative uses of brick in the past, and introduces her current research project: Complex Brick Assemblies. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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