About
Bricklab is an award-winning, Jeddah-based architecture studio co-founded by brothers Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz. Their practice probes the boundaries between art, material research, and built environments, merging technical mastery with conceptual rigor and interdisciplinary design. Inviting reflection upon dynamic elements that often go unnoticed, they explore the “gaps between graphics, product design, interiors, and architecture” through innovative investigations of site, object, and user— the component parts of our social and physical worlds. Bricklab creates architecture for cultural uses, visionary master plans, public space interventions, exhibition scenography, and artistic installations in response to the sociopolitical and economic contexts of their commissions.
Biographies
Brothers Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz were born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Abdulrahman holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Planning from the University of the West of England (Bristol, United Kingdom) while Turki earned his Bachelor's degree in Architectural Engineering from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). In 2015 they founded Bricklab - Saudi Arabia, a studio for developing architectural concepts based in Jeddah. They have particular interest in architectural engineering, planning and history, which ensures a particular focus on the research for each project, offering contributions on their particular social, economic and political contexts.
Initiatives
Saudi Modern is a multidisciplinary initiative founded by Jeddah-based architecture and design studio Bricklab that aims to analyze and interpret modernization through the history of the nation's urban and architectural development.
Crystallized in the name of Raw not only as an homage to Rawdah District but more so an uncensored yet thought provoking space for acquiring knowledge of all its forms. One can say, at its core the talks became closer to an actively shifting library due to the lack ofacademia in our social setting in Saudi, but also echoing globally.
Publications
From Riyadh to Dubai and Doha to Beirut, Cairo and Tunis, these 100 names represent the best talents in architecture, interior design, product innovation and sustainability in our region
Once a gritty and bustling light-industrial area, ‘JAX Creative District’ was reimagined as a meeting place for creatives and a celebration of the town’s rich and varied history.
In 2015, a group of visionary artists, led by Ahmed Mater, mobilized against the limiting currents of the cultural practices of their time.
Paul Bouet and Bricklab, Abdulrahman and Turki Hisham Gazzaz, will discuss the issues linked to the concept of heritage in their architectural and research practices.
After over three decades of a ban across the country, Saudi Arabia reopened its cinemas in 2018.
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz
The first part of the project by the founders of Bricklab includes a book and an exhibition
Set on a 12,300 m2 plot along the eastern periphery of Ad Diriyah's former industrial quarter.
Since the 1980’s, Saudi society witnessed a period of extremely conservative governance, supported by a skepticism towards the wholesale changes the local population witnessed after the discovery of oil.
Won the Art Jameel International Design Award for its proposed design of Hayy:Cinema
Designers' Workshop: Focus on the Gulf
Saudi artists on show at German art festival for first time
Saudi Artists Impress German Nature Lovers With Their Installations
Tales From The Gulf: The New Arab Creativity
The Gulf Arab States in Venice: Architecture, Representation, and the Perils of Politics
‘Spaces in Between’ Brings KSA Architecture to Venice Biennale
July/August 2018 issue
Global Patronage Issue
Title o Saudi pavilion article: 24 hours in venice
Venice: Finding Freespace
The Venice Biennale beyond the Giardini & Arsenale: 9 stops not to miss in the city
See Highlights from the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
This year’s edition is dedicated to the theme of “Freespace”
Around the world: we tour the National Pavilions at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
Architecture exhibition at 2018 Venice Biennale shows its human face
Highlights from the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale
Architecture of Change
Saudi’s pavilion for Venice Biennale reflects country’s tension between tradition and liberalisation
Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz
Interview with the architects, founders of Bricklab
La Biennale di Venezia, 16th International Architecture Exhibition
Saudi Venice Biennale debut follows Cannes
Three to see: Venice Architecture Biennale
From a church divided by concrete walls to a dose of Brexit washed down with cups of tea
The Saudi pavilion responds to the FREESPACE theme of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia with Spaces in Between
‘Spaces in Between’; Saudi Arabia’s debut Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2018
Pavilion at venice biennale architecture exhibition shows role of design in fabric of Saudi Arabian cities
Pavilion At Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition Shows Role Of Design In Fabric Of Saudi Arabian Cities
Saudi Arabia pavilion debuts at International Architecture Exhibition
Meet the Saudi architects making their debut at the Venice architecture biennale
Architects Turki Gazzaz and Abdulrahman Gazzaz, Founders of Bricklab
Towards vision 2030 - Ambasciata Arabia Saudita
Pavilions at the 2018 Venice Biennale
Majlis talk: Vassilis Oikonomopoulos in conversation with Abdulrahman Gazzaz
Saudi Arabia’s First-Ever Exhibition At The Venice Biennale Will Offer Space To Think About The Future
Arab Renaissance 4: Saudi Arabia’s first Arts Book Fair is underway as Casablanca IBF opens and Cairo IBF closes. Publishers look the other way
Saudi Arabia’s first art book fair comes to Jeddah
Saudi Art Council Launches Fifth Edition of 21,30 in Jeddah
Saudi Art Council Gears Up For Annual Contemporary Art Event
Artists Explore Cross-Cultural Collaborations During Corcoran Symposium
A New Saudi Arabia to the world: We are open for business
Hidden Talents - Jeddah
In pictures: 10 things that caught our eye at Amman Design Week 2017
BD Barcelona champions Arab designers with new collaboration project
BD Barcelona teams up with four GCC-based designers for exhibition during Dubai Design Week
Amman Design Week: The Hangar Exhibition
Unlimited Doha Design Prize shortlists 21
Art Books Jeddah
BD Barcelona (Postcraft Collection- Project: Taola)
Spaces In Between
Exhibitions
At MAAT Looks At Post-Global Conditions In The Pandemic
The exhibition design follows these lines of thought
His latest curatorial project at MAAT, Lisbon
Lectures/Talks
Lecture by Turki Gazzaz of Bricklab, Saudi Art council, Jeddah
Lecture by Bricklab & Paul Bouet, Archizoom Hall, EPFL, Lausanne
Lecture by Bricklab, School of Orientaland African Studies at the University of London
Talk by Bricklab, Seoul
Lecture by Bricklab, Arsenale, Venice
Lecture by Bricklab, House of World Cultures, Berlin
Panel discussion, Part of Land Art Generator Symposium, Alula
Panel discussion with Bricklab, Diriyah Biennale Foundation, Riyadh