Bricks

thumb|A single brick thumb|A wall constructed in glazed-headed Flemish bond brickwork pattern, with various shades and lengths

workable paste used to bind building blocks

thumb|A team of bricklayers preparing to lay courses of bricks (1917) thumb|Illustration of how the bricklayer, on clearing the footings of a wall, builds up six or eight courses of bricks at the external angles

thumb|New, unlaid mudbricks in the Jordan Valley (Middle East)|Jordan Valley, [[West Bank Palestine, 2011]] right|thumb|Mudbrick was used for the construction of Elamite [[ziggurats—some of the world's largest and oldest constructions. Choqa Zanbil, a 13th-century BCE ziggurat in Iran, is similarly constructed from clay bricks combined with burnt bricks.]]

thumb|right|Decorative Tudor brick chimneys, Hampton Court Palace, UK thumb|right|One of the buildings of the University of Jyväskylä, from [[Jyväskylä (Finland)]] thumb|right|Courtyard 2, Yemen right|thumb|Polychromatic and indented brickwork in a Mid-Victorian terrace in West London Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called courses are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall.

thumb|Large bricks on a conveyor belt in a modern European factory setting A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site. In earlier times bricks were made at brickfields, which would be returned to agricultural use after the clay layer was exhausted.

architectural style of Northern Europe

standard size rectangular block used in building construction

type of construction brick

range of refractory clays used in the manufacture of ceramics

type of masonry construction used in Roman and medieval times

Roman masonry in diamond-shaped bricks of tuff, covering a core of opus caementicium

block of ceramic material used in lining furnaces, kilns, fireboxes, and fireplaces

style of brick used in Ancient Roman architecture

thumb|Remains of the thermae in Glanum, on the southern outskirts of [[Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France]] Suspensura is the architectural term given by Vitruvius to piers of square bricks (about 20 cm × 20 cm) that supported a suspended floor of a Roman bath covering a hypocaust cavity through which hot air would flow.

open-pit mining for the extraction of clay minerals

thumb|right|Banna'i brickwork in the [[Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi. The blue brickwork spells out the names of Allah, Muhammad and Ali in square Kufic calligraphy.]] In Iranian architecture, '''banna'i''' (, "builder's technique" in Persian) is an architectural decorative art in which glazed tiles are alternated with plain bricks to create geometric patterns over the surface of a wall or to spell out sacred names or pious phrases. This technique originated in Syria and Iraq in the 8th century, and matured in the Seljuq and Timurid era, as it spread to Iran, Anatolia and Central Asia.

form of ashlar masonry used in Carthaginian and ancient Roman architecture

applied subdiscipline of chemistry

open-air brickworks

building material in masonry