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You burn bricks before they are assembled into a building, not after. In the American Southwest you do encounter prestige buildings from the end of the 19th cen
by HarryHirsch 3y ago
You burn bricks before they are assembled into a building, not after. In the American Southwest you do encounter prestige buildings from the end of the 19th century proudly proclaiming they were built in brick when the rest of the village was built from adobe.
- mjhay 3y agoThere is the modern counterexample of ceramic houses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_house
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoThe firing is energetically expensive, and doesn't really end up creating a notably longer lived result. Things last in the southwest because of the low moisture levels, whether they are fired or not. The "prestige" of brick in the southwest was all about having the money to pay for fired bricks, not really their superiority as a building material.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> You burn bricks before they are assembled into a building, not after. Yes, obviously. As I just mentioned, this is a technique that dates back several thousand years.