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- uncube’s editors are Sophie Lovell (Art Director, Editor-in-Chief), Florian Heilmeyer (fh), Rob Wilson (rgw) and Fiona Shipwright (fs); editorial assistance: Sara Faezypour (sf); graphic design: Lena Giovanazzi; graphic assistance Diana Portela.
  
  uncube is based in Berlin and is published by BauNetz, Germany’s most-read online portal covering architecture in a thoughtful way since 1996.
Warm, welcoming, long-lasting, cool-keeping, versatile, bombastic bricks! uncube’s issue no. 35 is devoted to our favourite modular building material. Share a journey with us from “ugly” brick houses in Belgium to masonry symphonies in Uruguay via soulful examples of historical salvage and contemporary practices exploring the endless potential of these little baked blocks of clay.

And don’t miss our photo booth encounter on page 62 with the towering presence of Wolf D. Prix.

Just follow the yellow brick road…

The editors
Cover image: Technical Administration building, Hoechst AG, Frankfurt, Germany, 1924, designed by Peter Behrens. (Photo: Klaus Peter Hoppe, © Infraserv Höchst GmbH & Co. KG)

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EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Editorial

Bricks
ESSAY

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A Brick in the Stomach

Max Borka on the home-loving Belgians

Text: Max Borka
FOUND

FOUND

Trümmerfrauen

The women who cleared the debris of Berlin

Text: Fiona Shipwright
VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

H Architectes, Barcelona, Spain

Architects on building in brick 1/4

Text: Florian Heilmeyer
FOUND

FOUND

Walls of Faith

Arthur Shoosmith’s New Delhi church

Text: Rob Wilson
VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Baumschlager Eberle, Lustenau, Austria

Architects building in brick 2/4

Text: Florian Heilmeyer
ESSAY

ESSAY

Catching the Curve

Eladio Dieste and the brick by Florencia Rodríguez

Text: Florencia Rodríguez
FOUND

FOUND

Collective Constructs

Olafur Eliasson’s Collectivity Project

Text: Sophie Lovell
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Wall-E

Gramazio & Kohler’s masonry robots

Text: Fiona Shipwright
FOCUS

FOCUS

Trapped by History

The new genre of stylish salvage

Text: Sara Faezypour, Sophie Lovell, Rob Wilson
FOUND

FOUND

Breaking Point

On the art of blowing up buildings

Text: Fiona Shipwright
VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Sergison Bates Architects, London, UK

Architects on building in brick 3/4

Text: Rob Wilson
FOUND

FOUND

Blood Bricks

Child labour in the kilns of Nepal

Text: Pete Pattisson
VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Onion, Bangkok, Thailand

Architects on building in brick 4/4

Text: Fiona Shipwright
FOUND

FOUND

Masonry Maximus

A pile of palaces in Ancient Rome

Text: Rob Wilson
PHOTO BOOTH

PHOTO BOOTH

In the Photo Booth with...

Wolf D. Prix

Text: Philipp Sturm
KLAUSTOON

KLAUSTOON

Klaustoon

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COVER

Bricks

Table of contents

EDITORIAL

Bricks

ESSAY

Max Borka on the home-loving Belgians

FOUND

The women who cleared the debris of Berlin

VIEWPOINT

Architects on building in brick 1/4

FOUND

Arthur Shoosmith’s New Delhi church

VIEWPOINT

Architects building in brick 2/4

ESSAY

Eladio Dieste and the brick by Florencia Rodríguez

FOUND

Olafur Eliasson’s Collectivity Project

FOUND

Gramazio & Kohler’s masonry robots

FOCUS

The new genre of stylish salvage

FOUND

On the art of blowing up buildings

VIEWPOINT

Architects on building in brick 3/4

FOUND

Child labour in the kilns of Nepal

VIEWPOINT

Architects on building in brick 4/4

FOUND

A pile of palaces in Ancient Rome

PHOTO BOOTH

Wolf D. Prix

KLAUSTOON

XX. Another Brick in the World

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