Brick is Red - Author's Edition
Brick is Red takes the reader’s eyes through a series of images, text fragments and graphic schemes, extracted from the most common designing tools in ARX. Following a wide range arch, from the first sketches to the complete built work, some additional aspects usually crossing our creative practice are here gradually disclosed.
Even though this “unveiling” may reveal a clearly systematized operative methodology, it is nevertheless a non-linear process crossed by doubt, contingency, failure, error and surprise. It is then a universe of uncertainty that opens up without filters or explanations, leaving up to the reader the opportunity to interpret the material here put forth.
In architecture, a great part of the composition process entails the architect’s interaction with others. Likewise, Brick is Red is a book with many interactions: the architects, photographers, the graphic designer, who altogether appropriates their images (as he works on them) and a writer.
To the likeness of the countless scale-models produced by ARX throughout the years, this book takes on a thorough craftsmanship, endowed with strong tactile dimension, where front and back covers are made of the material most often used in model building at the atelier: grey recycled cardboard. The expressiveness of this “raw” material and the absence of a book spine, exposing its black-thread stitches binding the signatures, suggest an unfinished book, a work-in-progress, a construction site.
ARX, Lisbon, March 9th, 2012
Available At:
ARX Store
Livraria A+A
Técnica Livraria
Livraria Universidade Lusófona
Livraria Projectos (FA-UTL; ESAA - Castelo Branco)
Livraria Ler Devagar
Livraria Universidade Lusíada
Livraria IST
Directly at ARX Portugal Arquitectos
CREDITS
Editor: ARX Portugal Arquitectos
Concept: Nuno Mateus; José Mateus; Pedro Falcão
Graphic Designer: Pedro Falcão
Texts: ARX Portugal; Gonçalo M Tavares
Contents: ARX Portugal Arquitectos; Pedro Falcão; Gonçalo M. Tavares
Photography: FG+SG Fotografia de Arquitectura; José Manuel; Daniel Malhão; João Carmo Simões; ARX
Press Office: Ana Fontes
Translation: Cláudia Pinto
Proofreading: António Massano
Printing: Gráfica Maiadouro
TECHNICAL FEATURES
- Size: 305 X 230 cm
- Number of pages: 248
- Folios: 5/5 print + general water varnish on paper Perigor matte 150 grs; paper fibres parallel to spine
- Endleaves: Sirio black 140 grs w/o print
- Hardcover: 3mm cardboard printed Frt. 15X16 cm
- Binding: signatures sewn in black thread, paperback thermally activated perfect binding, face trimmed and front cover + back cover glued to respective endleaf (no cardboard on spine)
- Number of Prints: 1000
- Bilingual edition: Portuguese and English
SPONSORS
   
Thanks to:
Sapa Building System Portugal
Gráfica Maiadouro, S.A.
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