Brick
Bipeda: An ancient Roman brick or thick tile which is two-Roman feet long, one Roman foot wide, and one-third of a Roman foot thick
Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy
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Brick Gothic Revival
Victorian Gothic House in Fredericksburg, Virginia
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In the east (Iran and Iraq), however, brick was employed in the earliest Islamic buildings (i.e. Khan Atshan) as a direct continuation of Sassanian practice.
Dichromatic Brickwork
Since the Romanesque era, two or more colours of brick have been used to decorate public and private buildings.
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Brick Nogging, Brick Partition Wall - Non-Load bearing wall, usually infilling between the columns or a steel framed building. The wall is generally constructed by bricks on edge. Wall ties and movement joints are needed for them ...
BRICK A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material. Most bricks used for buildings in Ashfield are of a warm, red colour.
Bricks
Brick Wall Patterns: Common Bond, Running Bond, Flemish Bond, English Bond, Herringbone, Stack Bond
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Brick (F brique, R caramida)
A solid masonry unit of clay or shale, formed into a rectangular prism while plastic and burned or fired in a kiln.
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Bricks Common building blocks made from clay burnt in a kiln.
Buttress A structure built against a wall to support or reinforce it.C
Capital The elaboration at the top of a column, pillar, pier or pilaster.
Bricks - One of the oldest building materials, brick is based on a mix of clay with silt and sand pressed in molds and then burned in a kiln, which gives the characteristic slightly glazed finish.
Brickmold: Standard outside casing around the window to cover the gap between the window frame and the opening. Nails are driven through the molding to install the window to the framed opening.
Airbrick: Perforated brick used for ventilation, especially to floor voids (beneath timber floors) and roof spaces.
Architrave: Joinery moulding around window or doorway.
Airbrick A perforated brick built into the wall for the purpose of providing air for ventilation purposes. Used to ventilate the underside of a wood floor or a roof space.
Airbrick A perforated brick built into a wall for providing ventilation. Used, for instance, to ventilate the underside of timber ground floors, blocked fireplaces or a roof space.
Face brickwork - Finely finished, intended to be visible.
Fanlight - Originally a fan-shaped window over a door, but now applied to any window in that position often rectangular.
Rubbed brickwork
Soft brick sawn roughly, then rubbed to a precise (gauged) surface. Mostly used for door or window openings. Also called gauged brickwork.RubbleMasonry whose stones are wholly or partly in a rough state.
Brick mold Exterior casing around a wood window or door through which nails are driven to install the unit. Covers the gap between the frame & masonry opening. In some cases, siding is installed up to the edge of the brick mold.
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Bricks were not used widely for some reason, but can be found in cathedrals only in northern and eastern Germany and southern France. These countries also used bricks to make their churches, castles, and palaces.
brick molding A milled wood trim piece covering the gap between the window frame and masonry, which can be rectilinear, curved or composite-curved.
cap flashing A waterproof sheet that seals the tops of cornices and walls.
BRICK
A substance made from clay molded and fired in a kiln or baked in the sun, used in building, paving, etc.
BROWNSTONE
A reddish-brown sandstone, used for building.
Brick mould: Outside casing around window to cover jambs and through which nails are driven to install the window.
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Bricks or tiles laid diagonally with alternate courses in the opposite direction
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Brick or masonry courses built out beyond one another like a series of corbels to support a chimney stack or window etc.
Crypt.
Underground or half underground room usually below the east end of a church.
brick or stone laid diagonally
Herisson
a barrier of stakes, arranged randomly in the ground to prevent a direct approach from attackers ...
Brick was used in a similar fashion to express the inherent nature of the material. Josef Franke produced some characteristic expressionist churches in the Ruhrgebiet in the 1920s.
brick or masonry courses, each projecting beyond, and supported by, the one below it; the meeting of two corbels would create an arch or vault.
Corinthian
see Order.
a brick laid so that the end appears on the wall face.
Impost
the projection, often moulded, at the springing of an arch, upon which the arch appears to rest.
The bricklayer uses a straight edged trowel for pointing. There are two basic sizes, the "dotter" which has a three inch blade and is used on joints, and the "bed jointer" which has a six inch blade and is used on the beds.
1450 Brickell plans to ward off storms with curtain wall by LeClaire, Jennifer / The Real Deal
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Bond - brickwork with overlapping bricks. Types of bond include stretcher, English, header, Flemish, garden wall, herringbone, basket, American, and Chinese.
Unbaked brick, dried by the sun, as used for house construction in the Southwestern United States.
Arcade
A range of arches supported on piers or columns.
Adobe - Med bricks reinforced with straw. Used particularly in Latin America and southwestern USA, adobe produces a distinctive architectural style based on organic forms, a smooth finish, and a minimum of window openings.
Header - Brick or block laid across a wall to bond together its two sides. It also means the exposed end part of a brick.
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Adobe
Sun-dried brick used in places with warm, dry climates, such as Egypt and Mexico; also, the structures built out of adobe bricks.
Herringbone - Brick or stone laid in alternate diagonal courses.
Hillfort - Bronze or iron age earthwork defenses of concentric ditches and banks.
stretcher - a brick laid with its long face to the weather.
stringcourse - a projecting course of bricks, or some other material, ...
BUTTRESS
A stone or brick structure to support or brace a heavy wall. A series of tall narrow buttresses ending in decorative finials not only support San Gabriel's church wall, but give it a distinctive appearance.
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Blockhouse: Small square fortification, usually of timber bond overlapping arrangement of bricks in courses (flemish, dutch, french, etc.) Bonnet: Freestanding fortification; priest's cap.
Airbrick - a perforated brick, terracotta or plastic vent built into a wall for providing ventilation. Often used to ventilate the underside of timber ground floors, fireplaces or a roof space.
buttress A mass of masonry or brickwork projecting from or built against a wall to give additional strength. See also flying buttress.
statues or ornaments placed at the apex and the ends of pediments ARCH: the spanning of an opening by reasons other than that of a lintel ARCHITRAVE: the lintel extending from one column or pier to another BUTTRESS: a mass of masonry or brickwork ...
apart and covered with planks laid from truss to truss, were laid - to begin with - two layers of the Roman brick (measuring nearly 2 ft. square and 2 in. thick); ...
Brick church with simplified Gothic features, including pointed-arched windows, steeply-pitched roof, slender Gothic tower/steeple, and hints of "flying buttresses" on the wall sides.
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Their masonry was more varied; they used bricks and concrete freely, as well as stone, marble, and mosaic. Use of the arch and vault introduced curved forms; curved walls produced a semicircular space, or apse, for terminating an axis.
Structures were often built with stones or mud bricks.
Classical architecture - Different from other types of architecture because everything was symmetrical from the doors to the windows and to the decorations.
Some of the common characteristics of this design are: âE¢ Stucco and brick exterior. âE¢ Steep roof pitches at varying heights. Curved roof pitches are sometimes incorporated in one or two locations.
Symmetrical clapboard or brick exterior with little or no ornamentation
Usually three-story design, commonly box-shaped two or more rooms deep, sometimes modified with projecting wings
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Use of stone or brick for accent on walls, often by the front door
Low pitched hip or gable roof with wide overhang
Horizontal, rambling layout: long, narrow, and low to the ground
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Casement A window hinged on one of its vertical sides to open inwards or outwards like a door Cavity-wall (also called Cavity Brick) A brick wall laid in 2 close rows which are connected by ties Chair-rail (often called Dado-rail) A ...
When Cape Cod style was first making an entrance brick and stone was not readily available but lumber on the other hand was plentiful. The houses were almost entirely made out of wood, including the thick shingles.
Georgian Colonial buildings, in the English manner, were ideally in brick, with wood trim, wooden columns and entablatures painted white. In the US, one found both brick buildings as well as those in wood with clapboards.
The spaces between the wooden timbers are filled with plaster, brick, or stone. In Medieval times, many European houses were half-timbered. The structural timbers were exposed.
Homes are often brick with detailing in copper or slate. Windows and chimneys are symmetrical and perfectly balanced, at least in original versions of the style.
In architecture, a vault is an arched roof or covering of masonry construction, made of stone, brick, or concrete. There are several type of vaults. A barrel (or tunnel) vault is semi-cylindrical in cross-section.
stone block or brick) construction, the keystone is the central stone which completes the construction of an arch and permits it to carry vertical loads.
There are many other kinds of bonds in brickwork. To see these and learn more about masonry and brickwork, ...
CHIMNEYS Chimneys are usually built of stone or brick (more modern chimneys may be of cinder block) and are located at either the exterior side walls of the building or at the center or interior of the building.
header - the end of the brick seen in a brick course
jamb - the straight vertical side of a doorway or window
joist - horizontal structural members to which the boards of a floor or the lath for a ceiling are nailed ...
A structure (of stone, brick, or wood) built against a building to strengthen it by resisting the thrust of arches, roofs and vaults. A flying buttress uses arches or half-arches to transmit the thrust to a buttress standing clear of the wall.
This is most easily achieved with brick, using different coloured bricks across walls. However diaper patterns can also be in stone, even tiles. Popular in medieval buildings, such as at Jesus College Cambridge.
 See also: Architecture, House, Floor, Ground, Arches
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