DETAIL 5, 2021 Brickwork

Do you know the quote by Mies van der Rohe about brick? 'How sensible is this small handy shape, so useful for every purpose! What logic in its bonding, pattern, and texture! What richness in the simplest wall surface! But what discipline this material imposes!' The brick industry rightly likes to quote to this passage from the architect's inaugural address to students as the new director of architecture at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1938.