This is a guest post from Antonina of OpenBuildings - a community-driven and openly editable encyclopaedia of buildings from around the world. 

Do you think brick is trivial and a thing of the past? Think twice! It is true up until a century ago brick was predominantly associated with the vernacular architecture of England’s industrial north. With very few notable exceptions like woderful Uruguay-born architect and engineer Eladio Dieste, most architects over the last two centuries do not seem to have discovered any excitement in experimenting with brick. These days however brick has been making its way back into the spotlight of architectural stardom as computer-aided parametric design’s new love.

Eladio Dieste: Cristo Obrero Church

image: Rafael Oliveira on flickr

Randic Turato Architects: Pope John Paul II Hall

image: Robert Leš

Lyons Architecture: Mornington Nursing Home

image: John Gollings & Roger Du Buisson

Wang Shu/Amateur Architecture Studio: Ningbo Historic Museum

image: Iwan Baan

Mass Studies & Slade Architecture: Pixel House

image: Yong Kwan Kim

Hans Jorg Goritz Architektur: National Parliament Principality of Liechtenstein

image: Jürg Zürcher

Anagram Architects: South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre

image: Anagram Architects

Bearth & Deplazes with Gramazio & Kohler: Vineyard Estate Gantenbein

image: Ralph Feiner

MAB architecture: Plinthos

image: MAB Architecture

SHoP Architects: 290 Mulberry

image: SHoP Architects

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