• • 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)

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Bricks
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Bricks
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  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
• FOUND

  FOUND

  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

  XX. Another Brick in the World
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

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