until Sunday November 09 2025

CID: Center for Innovation and Design at Grand-Hornu
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Rue Sainte-Louise, 82
7301 Hornu
Belgium

The Exhibition What do you want Brick?, whose title is borrowed from Louis Kahn, will feature some 50 works, from the modernist era to the present day. Architects have seized on the traditional standard brick as a building system, while diversifying their forms and materials. The structural elements evolve into facade motifs or claustras. Brick variations in bio-sourced raw materials and the reuse of waste from demolition and industrial overproduction represent major research alternatives applied to construction.
On a completely different scale, the artists and designers featured in the exhibition divert brick clay from its original purpose, giving it a whole new range of uses, both functional and symbolic, as many possible variations on this simple, multi-purpose form.