When it comes to maintaining the durability of brick masonry wall systems, moisture control is perhaps the most crucial design consideration. Unwanted moisture can cause masonry to experience ...

A design team headed by RoTo Architects, Los Angeles, took a new angle on an old masonry technique to keep outdoor sound from entering the La Jolla (Calif.) Playhouse's newest theater. Their solution: ...

Carl Pruscha, an Austrian architect who mainly dedicated his professional career to investigating and working closely in the field of regional architecture in the Eastern world, a territory that was ...

Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2009. Read the original here. One of mankind’s oldest building materials is brick. Before they shaped stone with tools, our ancestors dried ...