專注的力量

海莫·朔伊希/Heimo Scheuch

尚晉 譯/Translated by SHANG Jin

專注的力量

Power of Concentrating

海莫·朔伊希/Heimo Scheuch

尚晉 譯/Translated by SHANG Jin

尊敬的讀者：

您遇到過不喜歡磚的人么？如果有，那么您在我們維納博艮這個世界上最大的制磚公司里是不會遇到的！因為多次調查顯示，磚其實是最受人們歡迎的。這也毫不奇怪：因為粘土磚不僅是人類歷史上最古老的建筑材料，而且至今依然是更好、更加可持續的一種材料。這可不是我們的一面之詞，著名建筑師、普利茲克獎得主以及磚筑獎的評委王澍也這么認為。不論是雄偉的建筑和功能用房，還是屋頂景觀和歷史悠久的廣場，磚都能賦予它們一種別致的優雅，讓整個城市體現出獨一無二的品位。

盡管磚能帶來無數的設計創意和優秀的節能效果，它卻不時為“現代”建筑忽視。這正是我們在2004年設立每兩年一次的“維納博艮磚筑獎”和出版相應獲獎建筑作品集的起緣，而目的就是要展現墻面磚、粘土砌塊和屋面瓦在當代建筑中的美學和實用價值。

從過去到現在，我們都始終不渝地致力于證明，磚是一種千變萬化的現代建材。同時，我們希望把國際上磚建筑的當代發展潮流及其廣泛的應用呈現給建筑專家和愛好者。因為，即便是每天鉆研磚的我們，也會為無數體現各地建筑特色的設計和施工工藝驚嘆不已。

2014年，我們迎來了“維納博艮磚筑獎”10周年慶典，并欣喜地看到這一獎項已經贏得了建筑界相當的關注。2004年以來，提交作品的數量逐年增多，并總會有人問我們如何參賽。2014年的磚筑獎已收到國際建筑評論家和記者從26個國家選出的300多個作品：從西班牙到阿富汗，再從中國到泰國。這證明了磚這種可持續建材不僅在建筑的立面、墻面、屋面和地面上有廣泛的應用，更可以成為現代建筑高能效、面向未來的不可或缺的元素。

今年磚筑獎的獲獎作品之一位于中國：由林君翰先生設計的四季住宅贏得了住宅類大獎。另有兩個中國項目獲得提名：蘭溪庭和用回收磚建造的桐江學校——它們是中國建筑設計高水平創新和可持續應用的體現。因此，我有理由相信，地方傳統與現代建筑的結合具有無限的潛能，是粘土材料建筑的典范。

對于我們來說，始于2004年的“維納博艮磚筑獎”是未來磚建筑理念交流的國際化平臺，而我們必將在兩年后續寫這段傳奇！

我衷心期待中國的磚建筑繼續在2016年“維納博艮磚筑獎”上創造輝煌。（更多信息可見：www.wienerberger.com)

1 海莫·朔伊希，維納博艮集團執行總裁/Heimo Scheuch, CEO Wienerberger AG（攝影/Photo: Kurt Keinrath）

2 2014年磚筑獎頒獎典禮現場/Brick Award 14 ceremony

3 王澍領銜的2014年磚筑獎評審團/Jury members of Brick Award 14

4 2014年磚筑獎慶祝派對/Brick Award 14 after show party（2-4攝影/Photos: Christian Dusek）

5 歷屆磚筑獎獲獎作品集/Brick Books

6 2014年磚筑獎獲獎建筑師/Brick Award 14 winners（攝影/ 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 fa?ades, 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)

維納博艮集團執行總裁

2014-06-21