Text from the editor describing the book:
“The use and popularity of bricks has not feigned one bit over the millennia and is even gaining popularity today. Bricks are the only non-natural building material that can look back at several thousand years of history. Buildings made of this fabric from very different epochs and cultures all over the world are always astonishing and the world’s best architects have explored the qualities of brickwork. A key characteristic for its success has always been easy planning through the standardization of production and the resulting harmonized construction process. Amazing constructive qualities, inexpensive and at the same time environmentally friendly production as well as the longevity are among the characteristics that are particularly valued today”.