In the Mediterranean, great exponents such as Antoni Gaudí, Puig i Cadafalch or Doménech I Montaner, built with their own personality: a land of bricks. Today, Spanish contemporaries like Rafael Moneo; brick magicians like the Uruguayan Eladio Dieste; and Pritzker awards such as Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Glenn Murcutt or Siza continue to use brick as a total construction technology
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· Alvaro Siza:
“Brick is the material that is best maintained over time. Even in places with high pollution, the appearance is always good.
The older brick, the more beautiful it is.”
· Louis Kahn:
“The brick was always talking to me, it told me, you are missing an opportunity. !!”
“The architect asks the brick. What do you want to be? He replies, Architecture.”
· Alvar Aalto:
“Good architecture is capable of transforming an almost worthless brick into a gold brick.”