海莫·朔伊希/Heimo Scheuch

尚晋 译/Translated by SHANG Jin

专注的力量

Power of Concentrating

海莫·朔伊希/Heimo Scheuch

尚晋 译/Translated by SHANG Jin

尊敬的读者：

您遇到过不喜欢砖的人么？如果有，那么您在我们维纳博艮这个世界上最大的制砖公司里是不会遇到的！因为多次调查显示，砖其实是最受人们欢迎的。这也毫不奇怪：因为粘土砖不仅是人类历史上最古老的建筑材料，而且至今依然是更好、更加可持续的一种材料。这可不是我们的一面之词，著名建筑师、普利兹克奖得主以及砖筑奖的评委王澍也这么认为。不论是雄伟的建筑和功能用房，还是屋顶景观和历史悠久的广场，砖都能赋予它们一种别致的优雅，让整个城市体现出独一无二的品位。

尽管砖能带来无数的设计创意和优秀的节能效果，它却不时为“现代”建筑忽视。这正是我们在2004年设立每两年一次的“维纳博艮砖筑奖”和出版相应获奖建筑作品集的起缘，而目的就是要展现墙面砖、粘土砌块和屋面瓦在当代建筑中的美学和实用价值。

从过去到现在，我们都始终不渝地致力于证明，砖是一种千变万化的现代建材。同时，我们希望把国际上砖建筑的当代发展潮流及其广泛的应用呈现给建筑专家和爱好者。因为，即便是每天钻研砖的我们，也会为无数体现各地建筑特色的设计和施工工艺惊叹不已。

2014年，我们迎来了“维纳博艮砖筑奖”10周年庆典，并欣喜地看到这一奖项已经赢得了建筑界相当的关注。2004年以来，提交作品的数量逐年增多，并总会有人问我们如何参赛。2014年的砖筑奖已收到国际建筑评论家和记者从26个国家选出的300多个作品：从西班牙到阿富汗，再从中国到泰国。这证明了砖这种可持续建材不仅在建筑的立面、墙面、屋面和地面上有广泛的应用，更可以成为现代建筑高能效、面向未来的不可或缺的元素。

今年砖筑奖的获奖作品之一位于中国：由林君翰先生设计的四季住宅赢得了住宅类大奖。另有两个中国项目获得提名：兰溪庭和用回收砖建造的桐江学校——它们是中国建筑设计高水平创新和可持续应用的体现。因此，我有理由相信，地方传统与现代建筑的结合具有无限的潜能，是粘土材料建筑的典范。

对于我们来说，始于2004年的“维纳博艮砖筑奖”是未来砖建筑理念交流的国际化平台，而我们必将在两年后续写这段传奇！

我衷心期待中国的砖建筑继续在2016年“维纳博艮砖筑奖”上创造辉煌。（更多信息可见：www.wienerberger.com)

1 海莫·朔伊希，维纳博艮集团执行总裁/Heimo Scheuch, CEO Wienerberger AG（摄影/Photo: Kurt Keinrath）

2 2014年砖筑奖颁奖典礼现场/Brick Award 14 ceremony

3 王澍领衔的2014年砖筑奖评审团/Jury members of Brick Award 14

4 2014年砖筑奖庆祝派对/Brick Award 14 after show party（2-4摄影/Photos: Christian Dusek）

5 历届砖筑奖获奖作品集/Brick Books

6 2014年砖筑奖获奖建筑师/Brick Award 14 winners（摄影/ Photo: Christian Dusek）

Dear Readers,

Have you ever met anyone who didn't like brick? To our great relief, we at Wienerberger, the world's largest producer of bricks, haven't yet! Again and again, surveys reveal brick to be the most popular choice. No wonder: fired clay is not only one of mankind's oldest building materials, it's also still the best and the most sustainable. Don't just take our word for it; that's also the view of renowned architects such as Pritzker Prize winner and Brick Award Jury member Wang Shu. Brick graces great architecture and functional buildings, roof landscapes and historic squares, and it lends whole towns their unmistakable identity.

Despite the countless creative design possibilities and its excellent energy efficiency brick it is still sometimes overlooked in "modern" architecture. That's why we initiated the Wienerberger Brick Award and accompanying biannual architecture book in 2004, in order to promote the aesthetic and functional assets that facing bricks, clay blocks and roof tiles have to offer for contemporary architecture.

It was and is our aim to show that brick is a modern and incredibly versatile construction material. At the same time, we want to give people who are interested in architecture, as well as experts, an overview of current developments and trends in international brick architecture with its remarkable range of applications. Even we, who work with brick on a daily basis, are continually surprised and fascinated by the immense planning and manual dexterity with which many buildings are executed to reflect and meet regional architectural requirements.

In 2014 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wienerberger Brick Award and meanwhile we know that our award has achieved a certain reputation within the architecture world. Submissions have grown steadily since 2004, and we are constantly receiving requests asking how to take part in the competition. International architecture critics and journalists have proposed more than 300 projects from 26 countries for the Brick Award 2014, from Spain to Afghanistan, to China and Thailand. All of them illustrate that brick as a sustainable building material is not only used for façades, walls, roofs or paving, but rather decisively characterises future-oriented, energy-efficient and, above all, modern architecture.

One of the winners of this year's Brick Award is a project located in China: The House for All Seasons constructed by John Lin was victorious in the Residential Use category. Another two Chinese projects were nominated: Lanxi Curtilage and Tongjiang Recycled Brick School. This shows the high creative standards of architectural work in China and its sustainable approach. In my opinion, the combination of local traditions with modern architecture is very inspiring as it is exemplary for building with clay building materials.

For us, the Wienerberger Brick Award as an international exchange of ideas on the brick architecture of the future, is a success story that began in 2004 and we definitely will continue this story in two years.

I already look forward to seeing next brick buildings from China enter the running for the Wienerberger Brick Award 16. (www. wienerberger.com)

维纳博艮集团执行总裁

2014-06-21