CONTENTS
Introduction
Aim and objectives
Research questions
Scope and limitations
Chapter 1: 1
1.1: Introduction to bricks
• Understanding the material
1.2: Brick as a visual material
• The use of colour in design
• Plastic effects of the material
• Moulded bricks in design
1.3: Brick as a physical material
• Understanding brick making
• Understanding brick laying
1.4: Brick as spatial material
• Materiality and spatiality
• Spatial qualities of bricks
1.5: Brief History of the material
• Hisory and evolution of the material across the world
Chapter 2: 17
2.1: Criteria for selection of examples
• Techniques and exploitation of material affecting various factors
• Various techniques practiced to achieve – perforation, organic forms, etc.
9 such factors
2.2: Examples from around the world based on the 9 parameters
Chapter 3: 55
3.1: Paul Frankl’s critical method of analysis
• Introduction to theory
• Relevance of ideology with the study
• Extraction of the important parts of the theory according to the study and deduction of factors
Chapter 4: 61
4.1 : Corporeal
• Case-a
• Case-b
4.2 : Visual
• Case-a
• Case-b
Chapter 5:
5.1: Understanding 105
5.2: Conclusion
Bibliography 111
Illustration credits 115
Glossary 117