2016维纳博艮砖筑奖：向创新致敬

海莫·朔伊希/Heimo Scheuch

尚晋 译/Translated by SHANG Jin

2016维纳博艮砖筑奖：向创新致敬

Wienerberger Brick Award 2016——Honouring Innovation

海莫·朔伊希/Heimo Scheuch

尚晋 译/Translated by SHANG Jin

1　海莫·朔伊希，维纳博艮集团执行总裁，在2016年5月19日举办的2016年砖筑奖颁奖典礼现场/Heimo Scheuch， CEO of Wienerberger AG， on the Brick Award 16 Ceremony， held on the 19th of May 2016.2　2016年砖筑奖奖杯/Trophies of the Brick Award 163　2016年砖筑奖获奖作品集/Brick 164　填充有绝缘材料的粘土砖/Insulation filled clay block5　特殊的陶土砖/Terca Wasserstrich special

亲爱的读者：

当你想到砖的时候，脑海里的印象是什么？往往人们的第一联想是“传统”这个词。

由于砖在世界上几乎所有文化中都发挥过重要作用，这也就毫不意外了。砖是我们集体意识和历史的一部分。这可以从单体历史建筑、建筑符号和古迹以及整座城市中得到印证。

不过，烧结粘土砖不仅是最古老、最耐久的建筑材料之一；也是最现代、最前卫的。天然砖已发展为技术先进的建筑材料，兼具资源和能效两方面优势。然而无论怎样发展，砖都没有失去其鲜明的特色：建筑功能性、多用性以及塑造健康而富有个性的生活环境的独特魅力。

全世界众多具有开创性的杰出建筑项目就是最好的证明。

我们心中将这些非凡的项目展示于众并授予荣誉的强烈愿望促使我们在2004年启动了“维纳博艮砖筑奖”。从中赢得的积极反馈是对我们努力的肯定。过去几年中，有资格为竞赛提名砖建筑的人选仅限于建筑评论家和记者——但2016年的“砖筑奖”我们决定向前一步，也邀请建筑师推荐自己的项目。这引起了海啸般的反响：2014年有300人参赛的“砖筑奖”在今年收到了全世界六百项提名—— 一个创纪录的数字。

这全然没有让我们的4人专家组感到轻松。毕竟，他们为自己制定的目标不是仅凭美的标准去评判建筑，而是要整体考察。这就意味着对表现、创新和实用概念的综合评价——这种方法将保证今年建筑项目的获奖者名至实归。

今年中国有3个杰出项目入选我们的50项最佳作品集《砖筑16》：佚人营造建筑事务所的砖宅农舍（参见《世界建筑》201503期）、土木方建筑工作室的南京T80钟山生命科学国际社区改造设计（参见《世界建筑》201503期），以及畅想建筑设计事务所的江西婺源松风翠茶籽油工厂（参见本刊P86）。它们体现出个性化的建筑理念何以创造出具有前瞻性的独特项目。

我谨邀请中国每一位富有创造思维的建筑人，在不断将砖置于新文脉的实践中，向“2018维纳博艮砖筑奖”提交自己的项目。在线报名将于2017年初启动，更多信息请参见：www. brickaward.com。

6　2016年砖筑奖获奖建筑师/Brick Award 16 winners7　2016年砖筑奖颁奖典礼专题研讨会/Panel Discussion on the Brick Award 16 Ceremony8　海莫·朔伊希先生与受邀嘉宾邵韦平、维纳博艮集团中国区负责人/Heimo Scheuch with Chinese architect SHAO Weiping and the director of Wienerberger AG China（1-8摄影/Photos: Christian Dusek， 1-8图片版权/Photo courtesy: ©Wienerberger AG）

Dear Readers，

What comes to mind when you think of brick？Often， people's very first association is with the word "traditional".

As brick has played an important role in almost all the world's cultures， this is hardly surprising. Bricks form a part of our collective consciousness and our history. The evidence for this ranges from individual historic buildings， architectural symbols and monuments to entire cities.

Burnt clay， however， is not just one of the oldest and most durable building materials； it's also among the most modern and forward-looking ones. Natural brick has evolved into a technologically highly advanced building material that offers both resource and energy efficiency. For all of its advances， though，brick has not lost its distinctive characteristics: its architectural functionality， its versatility and its unique ability to shape a healthy and individual living environment.

Many extraordinary， ground-breaking architectural projects happening all over the world attest to this.

Our strong desire to showcase and honour some of these outstanding projects led us to launch the Wienerberger Brick Award in 2004. The strong positive feedback we have received is a confirmation of our efforts. In previous years， the only people eligible to nominate brick architecture for inclusion in the competition were architectural critics and journalists – but， for Brick Award 2016， we have decided to go a step further and let architects put forward their own projects as well. The reaction has been overwhelming: where 300 contestants applied for the Brick Award 2014， this year saw 600 projects nominated from all over the world – a record number.

That did not make the work of our four-member panel of experts any easier. The goal they had set for themselves， after all， was to judge architectural quality not just on the basis of aesthetic criteria， but to take a holistic approach. That meant assessing the interplay of expression， innovation and concept of use – an approach that assures that the architectural projects of this year's winners are particularly noteworthy.

This year three extraordinary projects from China made it into our book Brick 16， presenting the 50 best projects: Wang-House in Chunxiao by Anonymous Architects & Workshop （please see the 2015 March issue of World Architecture）， A Courtyard Community in Zhongshan by Atelier Groundwork Architecture （please see also the 2015 March issue of World Architecture） and Song Feng Cui in Wuyuan， by Imagine Architects （please see page 86 ）. They illustrate how customized architecture concepts can create unique and forward-looking projects.

I would like to invite all the creative architectural minds from China， who are constantly placing brick in a new context， to submit their projects for the next Wienerberger Brick Award 2018. Submission starts online at the beginning of 2017 （www.brickaward.com）.

维纳博艮集团执行总裁

2016-08-02