The architectural culture of brick, preserved by Byzantium and introduced in northern Italy, would thus reach northern Germany where, starting in the 2nd century, an independent tradition developed that culminated in the so-called "brick Gothic", spread throughout northern Europe, especially in the regions of the Baltic Sea (without natural rock resources).[5] Examples from that period built almost exclusively in brick, are preserved in Denmark, Germany, Poland and Russia.

Mudejar art, considered the most representative of the Middle Ages in Spain and inspired by its border character between the Christian north and the Muslims, has its most identifying element in brick and tile. Several types of Mudejarism have been differentiated:

Going beyond the context of religious architecture of the traditional Spanish Mudejar, the "neomudéjar", promoted at the end of the century by architects such as Emilio Rodríguez Ayuso or Agustín Ortiz de Villajos, developed in the Iberian Peninsula and some American capitals an imaginative passion for brick and architectural elements of Arab inspiration. The new style was especially associated with constructions of a festive and leisure nature, or administrative or work: theaters, casinos, train stations, bullrings, town halls, post offices, spas, factories and even saunas.[6]​.

By this name, or respecting the German term Brick Expressionism (Backsteinexpressionismus),[7]​ the architectural current or style practiced between 1920 and 1930 in Germany and the Netherlands is known. Outside of the nationalist context of this expressionism, contemporary examples can be found throughout much of Europe.

The architectural culture of brick, preserved by Byzantium and introduced in northern Italy, would thus reach northern Germany where, starting in the 2nd century, an independent tradition developed that culminated in the so-called "brick Gothic", spread throughout northern Europe, especially in the regions of the Baltic Sea (without natural rock resources).[5] Examples from that period built almost exclusively in brick, are preserved in Denmark, Germany, Poland and Russia.

Mudejar art, considered the most representative of the Middle Ages in Spain and inspired by its border character between the Christian north and the Muslims, has its most identifying element in brick and tile. Several types of Mudejarism have been differentiated:

Going beyond the context of religious architecture of the traditional Spanish Mudejar, the "neomudéjar", promoted at the end of the century by architects such as Emilio Rodríguez Ayuso or Agustín Ortiz de Villajos, developed in the Iberian Peninsula and some American capitals an imaginative passion for brick and architectural elements of Arab inspiration. The new style was especially associated with constructions of a festive and leisure nature, or administrative or work: theaters, casinos, train stations, bullrings, town halls, post offices, spas, factories and even saunas.[6]​.

By this name, or respecting the German term Brick Expressionism (Backsteinexpressionismus),[7]​ the architectural current or style practiced between 1920 and 1930 in Germany and the Netherlands is known. Outside of the nationalist context of this expressionism, contemporary examples can be found throughout much of Europe.