The old brickyard

21 km from the Palace of the President of Poland in Warsaw still exists the brickyard that produces according to the XIX century’s formula. The heart of the factory is a Hoffmann’s oven – a big construction filled up with the dried bricks that are fired by the never-ending, describing a circle, fire. But the real treasure of this unit are the workers – half-craftsmen, half-artists. The work is half-manual, impossible to measure with the present-day tolls and ISO’s. To maintain the aged machineries one needs an experience and knowledge impossible to gain in the polytechnics…