“Brick by Brick: Ceramics applied to architecture” is a major show featuring pieces created over a period of twelve thousand years, both utilitarian and artistic, that have become part of our cultural heritage, coming from leading European museums and collections.
Brick by Brick
The Museu del Disseny de Barcelona presents the first major exhibition on the uses, symbolism and aesthetics of brick and ceramics applied to architecture.
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- 16 September 2016
- Barcelona
The Museu del Disseny de Barcelona conserves a wide collection of ceramic objects, particularly from medieval times to the present, including both domestic pieces and elements used in architecture. The show features a selection of three hundred ceramic pieces applied in architecture, from Antiquity to the present focusing on the uses, functions, symbolism and aesthetics of this type of ceramic, with works from the ancient world to the present, particularly from the Mediterranean area, including the Middle East.
The first great adobe buildings known to man were constructed in Mesopotamia – where there was little stone – and in Pharaonic Egypt. Bricks have existed for 11,000 years, and their invention changed the art of construction and our spatial imaginary. Buildings could be modulated and extended without serious modifications. While Greece erected monuments of marble, Rome turned to masonry construction, a technique adapted by the Arabs and spread around their realm.
Curated by architect Pedro Azara, the show will open simultaneously with the Forty-Seventh Congress of the International Academy of Ceramics in Barcelona, an event that will be hosted as well in the Disseny Hub Barcelona building. Parallel to the exhibition, moreover, the Museum will stage a programme of activities organised in cooperation with the Ceramics Chair of the International University of Catalonia.
until 29 January 2017
Brick by Brick: ceramics applied to ceramics
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38
Barcelona