The slideshow above contains photos of some of the winners. In person, Preservation Houston hosts its 2015 Good Brick Tour May 2-3. For details, click here.

Brick shed off its role as the cheapest bulk material, although it only came in one standard slightly too large format. The pattern art is now rediscovered as the legacy of our grandparents, aka ...

In architecture terms, diapering is the use of a repeating pattern — a diamond pattern, for example — in brick on a building. The architect C. Emlen Urban incorporated diapering into a school ...