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When you see at brick buildings built 100 years ago, it's works of art. It's apparent that amount of attention to detail is just not within range of most brick

When you see at brick buildings built 100 years ago, it's works of art. It's apparent that amount of attention to detail is just not within range of most brick layers today. Especially when you consider price point. I'm talking stuff like this: http://www.etovidel.net/appended_files/big/4ea52a818bc08.jpg http://www.etovidel.net/appended_files/big/4ea52a818bc08.jpg BUT, robots can change all that. You can render a wall on PC, with all mosaics and tiles and all kind of super precise stuff, it will produce a complete program for a brick-laying robot, which will then be executed up to a millimetre. And it will also account for ventilation shafts, drainage, internal structures within the wall to decrease weight, increase toughness, heat- and soundproof.

UncleEntity 9y ago
I'd blame Bauhaus (the movement, not the band) for the lack of fancy features on modern-era buildings before I'd blame the bricklayers -- they just do what they're paid to do and modern architecture doesn't call for that level of detail in the brickwork.
- usrusr 9y ago
  And it's such a shame that the radicalism of Gropius got all the attention and imitation when he was surrounded by equally modernist architects who pushed the subtle decorative qualities of brick to new heights. Even Gropius himself is best when he puts brick into the mix.
sokoloff 9y ago
Isn't it likely that many of the plain utilitarian brick buildings built 100 years ago have been abandoned, demolished, or simply faded into the landscape background, leaving us to take notice of the large, important, ornate brick buildings? The house I live in is almost 100 years old, structural brick, and while it's a nice home, it's not by anyone's stretch an ornate work of art.
dredmorbius 9y ago
A suprisingly interesting old-school / new-school comparison of brick wall construction: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p5qVxAoKwbE https://youtube.com/watch?v=p5qVxAoKwbE
singularity2001 9y ago
>> it's works of art nah, some brick houses standing here from before 1900 are anything but art: unskilled farmers pulling up 'something'. Still standing though. And no, these sine-wave walls are not by design, ask my grandfather;)
ccozan 9y ago
Yes, and this is not done because....? Humans are still the chaper option. Except when the bricklayers are in shortage and the demand for brick building is not going down.
- thriftwy 9y ago
  It is not done until it is.

UncleEntity 9y ago

I'd blame Bauhaus (the movement, not the band) for the lack of fancy features on modern-era buildings before I'd blame the bricklayers -- they just do what they're paid to do and modern architecture doesn't call for that level of detail in the brickwork.

usrusr 9y ago
And it's such a shame that the radicalism of Gropius got all the attention and imitation when he was surrounded by equally modernist architects who pushed the subtle decorative qualities of brick to new heights. Even Gropius himself is best when he puts brick into the mix.

sokoloff 9y ago

Isn't it likely that many of the plain utilitarian brick buildings built 100 years ago have been abandoned, demolished, or simply faded into the landscape background, leaving us to take notice of the large, important, ornate brick buildings? The house I live in is almost 100 years old, structural brick, and while it's a nice home, it's not by anyone's stretch an ornate work of art.

dredmorbius 9y ago

A suprisingly interesting old-school / new-school comparison of brick wall construction: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p5qVxAoKwbE https://youtube.com/watch?v=p5qVxAoKwbE

singularity2001 9y ago

>> it's works of art nah, some brick houses standing here from before 1900 are anything but art: unskilled farmers pulling up 'something'. Still standing though. And no, these sine-wave walls are not by design, ask my grandfather;)

ccozan 9y ago

Yes, and this is not done because....? Humans are still the chaper option. Except when the bricklayers are in shortage and the demand for brick building is not going down.

thriftwy 9y ago
It is not done until it is.