brickwork
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Brickwork refers to the construction of walls and structures using bricks or other masonry units, arranged in a systematic way to ensure stability and strength. This arrangement, known as a bond, can also serve a decorative purpose.12
Common bonding techniques include:
* English bond: Alternating courses of headers (bricks laid with their ends showing) and stretchers (bricks laid with their lengths parallel to the wall face).1
* Flemish bond: Headers and stretchers laid alternately within each course, with each header centered over the stretcher below it.13
* American bond: Primarily uses stretchers, with headers appearing in every fifth or sixth course.1
Brick has been a primary building material since the 4th millennium BCE, valued for its fire and weather resistance, and ease of handling. Modern bricks are typically around 20.3 × 9.5 × 5.7 cm, allowing for various bonding patterns.4
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Mesopotamian art and architecture…restriction of building material to brickwork and, second, by problems of roof construction, only partially solved by the contrivance of brick vaulting, in the 2nd millennium bce. For the Assyrians, in the north, good-quality stone was plentiful, but the cost of quarrying and transport, combined with an obstinate conservatism, caused…
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Read More…were ornamented in brightly glazed brickwork, with huge figures of bulls, lions, and dragons modeled in relief. This form of decoration—a costly process, since each of the bricks composing the figures had to be separately cast—provided a solution for the problem of embellishing mud-brick facades. It appears again in the…
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