Look up! or here, to discover the beauty to be found in buildings made of brick.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Tiles: education
This series of four designs, two each on either street end of the front of the (-shaped Henry Shaw School on Columbia Avenue, illustrates four areas of education: history, science, the arts and math (I think).
Built in 1907, this may be a William B. Ittner school although my reading indicates the architect is uncertain. It looks a lot like other schools he designed.
It doesn't take long for the visitor to St. Louis to see that the city is built of brick. The variation is in the ornamentation, and bricklayers were inventive in their craft.
This site will give you an idea of how creative those bricklayers were in the use of brick patterns and incorporation of tiles and other ornamentation.
As I learn to look at the details, more and more of the art and craft of the bricklayer is revealed, and here I offer you some of the visual rewards I have enjoyed.
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