In this video, we look at 10 brick houses that have achieved a good balance of modern and old. We’ve included traditional and ...

Brick walls might some day power your lights and laptop, thanks to a new technique that converts building blocks into battery-like devices (Nat. Commun. 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17708-1). By ...

Mankind’s oldest building material is brick. Before they shaped stone with tools, our ancestors dried mud and other materials in the sun and stacked them to make shelters, altars and marketplaces.

In 1971 Louis Kahn, an American architect, was giving a masterclass at the University of Pennsylvania. In the course of a passage about how architects are always informed by their materials, he ...

Imagine plugging in to your brick house. Red bricks -- some of the world's cheapest and most familiar building materials -- can be converted into energy storage units that can be charged to hold ...