Brick Masonry

Brick masonry uses bricks as the building blocks and involves building walls from individual bricks laid in mortar. The basic building block of brick masonry is the wythe, a vertical layer of bricks with a thickness of one brick. Within a wythe, bricks can be laid in various courses or patterns, with the most common being the stretcher course, w...

The simplest brick masonry wall has one single wythe with a stretcher course.

In this arrangement, the brick's longer edge runs horizontally, with its face parallel to the direction of the wall.

A wythe is a vertical stack of bricks with a thickness of one unit, while a course is a horizontal layer of bricks or any masonry units.