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Brick is Red

How to Buy:

  1. Book Price: 35€*  (*special numbered and autographed edition)
  2. Shipping costs:

2.1 Portugal: included
2.2 Europe: +10€
2.3 Rest of the world: +15€

  1. Send to arxportugal@arx.pt the following data:

3.1 Full name
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  1. After our reception of your money transfer, ARX Portugal will send you the book and your invoice. If you wish to retrieve it directly at ARX please let us know in your email and we’ll be happy to receive you.

 

Brick is Red

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

Also Available At:

Livraria A+A
Técnica Livraria
Livraria Universidade Lusófona
LerArte, Unipessoal, Lda – na FAUTL
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.