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In the sixteenth century, Spanish colonists used clay from the Bogotá Savannah to build what is now Bogotá, teaching local Indigenous potters to make roof tiles and ladrillo tolete. As demand for construction materials grew, many ancestral ceramic traditions gave way to brickmaking. This anthropomorphic figure—both man and object, crafted for utility and devotion—embodies clay’s capacity for transformation. In Bogotá, bricks endured where ceramics faded. The earth—and this very vessel—are a reminder of what was reconfigured, what endures, and what was lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6467764e84b4e96ad5858b40/9348b0b5-c4dd-4e4a-8207-cecf55ae38d2/Screenshot+2026-05-07+at+5.39.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Bricks of Bogota - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6467764e84b4e96ad5858b40/aa8e7368-1d52-4c39-a7c4-b28dd563fb14/Screenshot+2026-05-07+at+5.32.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Bricks of Bogota - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6467764e84b4e96ad5858b40/444da895-beae-4362-aecb-f1513c01db5d/Screenshot+2026-05-07+at+5.44.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Bricks of Bogota - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6467764e84b4e96ad5858b40/aab219b3-56a2-4328-8a99-3426420dcd3f/Screenshot+2026-05-07+at+8.08.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Bricks of Bogota - Make it stand out The term chircal derives from chirco, a local shrub once used to fuel kilns. Many chircales were inhabited by displaced communities, victims of industrialization and La Violencia, who migrated to the city in search of work. Although the early twentieth century saw the introduction of formal brickyards fueled by coal, artisanal chircales persisted into the 1960s, prompting documentaries that exposed their hazardous conditions. One such film follows a brickmaking family in southern Bogotá, showing children hauling bricks across mud hills and breathing toxic fumes that could lead to illness or death. While bricks define the urban skyline, the labor behind them remains largely unseen. The film traces the slow rhythm of artisanal brickmaking: kilns packed with thousands of bricks, weeks of preparation, and more than a month of continuous firing. Rain could undo the entire process, while withheld wages secured political loyalty to landowners. Without unions, protections, or security of tenure, brickmakers lived within a fragile and coercive economy. Chircales reveals the inequalities embedded in the material foundations of Colombia’s modernity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6467764e84b4e96ad5858b40/6c4af17e-d5da-4bb2-81d0-bb71f8a1206f/Screenshot+2026-05-07+at+8.19.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Bricks of Bogota - Make it stand out Amid the influx of lightweight construction methods like drywall, brick-and-mortar construction is often marketed in Colombia as “traditional construction,” associated with quality, safety, and longevity. In lower-income neighborhoods, where carton and laminated steel are common, bricks offer greater resistance to the elements while remaining accessible in small quantities, enabling gradual, piecemeal construction. In Integraciones Periféricas, Mauricio Salcedo depicts the informal settlements of his childhood through stacked structures teetering on the verge of collapse. Cube-like forms sprout from floors and walls at skewed angles, while unfinished cavities suggest future doors and windows. Though rooted in socio-political realities, the work reflects adaptability and the resilience of building one’s own dwelling. Fredy Alzate’s Lugares en Fuga similarly reflects on precarious urbanization in Medellín and across Latin America. His brick-and-mortar sphere transforms a material associated with permanence into something unstable and mobile, revealing the fragility underlying dominant narratives of progress and modernization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6467764e84b4e96ad5858b40/ba27852d-2aa3-4f20-8012-44a706eeffa7/Screenshot+2026-05-07+at+9.22.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Bricks of Bogota - Make it stand out Bogotá’s Department of Urban Planning divides homes into six socio-economic strata, ranging from 1 (low-low) to 6 (high). Stratum 1 neighborhoods like El Codito resemble dense red-brick jigsaw puzzles, while nearby stratum 6 districts rise in polished brick towers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Amid the city’s deep inequalities, brick remains a common denominator, shaping informal settlements and upscale developments alike. As urban planner Fernando Montenegro observed in a 2023 ProBogotá conference, in Bogotá the wealthy do not live in marble or stone, nor do the poor live in tin or wood—but in brick. Yet color has become a social signifier: red bricks often mark older or informal neighborhoods, while lighter tones are associated with newer, affluent developments. Brick binds these socio-economic worlds even as color continues to divide them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6467764e84b4e96ad5858b40/cad72a04-8994-4123-8cbb-08454890da93/Screenshot+2026-05-07+at+8.57.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Bricks of Bogota - Make it stand out Photographs, novels, and newspapers reveal brick’s myriad uses in Colombian society. Bricks become makeshift furniture, drying racks, ladders, paperweights, and plant holders. They are used to dry coffee, fabricate counterfeit medicine, break windows during robberies, and produce bazuco, a cheap hallucinogenic cocaine paste commonly consumed by unhoused drug addicts. Their ubiquity across the socio-economic spectrum reflects a broader culture of resourcefulness and adaptation. Cuban artist Ernesto Oroza describes these improvised practices as “Technological Disobedience,” while Argentine artist Gabriel Chaile refers to an “Engineering of Necessity”: forms of making that emerge from scarcity, where objects are pushed beyond their intended use. 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