This thesis is a monograph on a building material, the brick, and on its way of lay-out. The first part of the text gives an idea of the different practices and technics of building in ancient mesopotamia. Firstly is described the way of making bricks (mud-bricks, baked bricks, or glazed bricks) and their distinctive features (prints, inscriptions, etc.). Secondly are reported the different sorts of lay-out with chapters on mortars and plasters, on the structures of the walls, on bondings or on floors, archs, vaults, or columns, finally are presented different building practices: rituals, labour methods and organization. The second part of the thesis shows the evolution of Mesopotamian brick building, trying to focuse, for each period, on t...
Although ceramic building materials had been known in East Asia from about 3000, it was only from th...
Shape and hallmark : the Toulouse brick in the first century of our era. The first century of our e...
Brick was proved to be one of the main building materials in the region of today's Serbia, especiall...
This thesis is a monograph on a building material, the brick, and on its way of lay-out. The first p...
International audienceIf the birth of the first sedentary communities in the Southern Caucasus at th...
The Mesopotamian alluvial plain (southern Iraq, from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf) is very poor in st...
International audienceThe research on Near Eastern architecture during the 7th-5th millennia BCE pin...
La brique de terre, crue ou cuite, est incontournable dans la construction nubienne antique comme co...
International audienceStucco was virtually unknown in the Pre-Classical Near East where, from the Ne...
Brick is man-made, which gives it a special status quite different to that of stone. It can be highl...
International audienceThe existence of relationships between Southern Caucasus and Northern Mesopota...
The techniques used for making pots are part of the traditions of a social group. Forthis reason, th...
Ce mémoire est une exploration du thème de l'utilisation de l'argile en architecture domestique et p...
Les différents acteurs de la société ne conçoivent pas tous une même technique de la même façon. L’a...
Keystones bricks : a specific building material of roman thermae. Summary keystones bricks having t...
Although ceramic building materials had been known in East Asia from about 3000, it was only from th...
Shape and hallmark : the Toulouse brick in the first century of our era. The first century of our e...
Brick was proved to be one of the main building materials in the region of today's Serbia, especiall...
This thesis is a monograph on a building material, the brick, and on its way of lay-out. The first p...
International audienceIf the birth of the first sedentary communities in the Southern Caucasus at th...
The Mesopotamian alluvial plain (southern Iraq, from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf) is very poor in st...
International audienceThe research on Near Eastern architecture during the 7th-5th millennia BCE pin...
La brique de terre, crue ou cuite, est incontournable dans la construction nubienne antique comme co...
International audienceStucco was virtually unknown in the Pre-Classical Near East where, from the Ne...
Brick is man-made, which gives it a special status quite different to that of stone. It can be highl...
International audienceThe existence of relationships between Southern Caucasus and Northern Mesopota...
The techniques used for making pots are part of the traditions of a social group. Forthis reason, th...
Ce mémoire est une exploration du thème de l'utilisation de l'argile en architecture domestique et p...
Les différents acteurs de la société ne conçoivent pas tous une même technique de la même façon. L’a...
Keystones bricks : a specific building material of roman thermae. Summary keystones bricks having t...
Although ceramic building materials had been known in East Asia from about 3000, it was only from th...
Shape and hallmark : the Toulouse brick in the first century of our era. The first century of our e...
Brick was proved to be one of the main building materials in the region of today's Serbia, especiall...